imitation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 模仿， 仿效； 仿制； 仿造品，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made all manner of gestures while he spoke, as if in incidental imitation of some few of the great diversity of signals that he had never seen.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little light hussar in tight riding breeches rode off at a gallop, crouched up like a cat on the saddle, in imitation of English jockeys.
-- While awaiting the time for carrying out her plans on a large scale, however, Kitty, even then at the springs, where there were so many people ill and unhappy, readily found a chance for practicing her new principles in imitation of Varenka.
-- These two ladies were the chief representatives of a select new Petersburg circle, nicknamed, in imitation of some imitation, les sept merveilles du monde.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These noses were made of bamboo, and were five, six, and even ten feet long, some straight, others curved, some ribboned, and some having imitation warts upon them.
-- Two powerful locomotives, carrying nine cars of invited guests, amongst whom was Thomas C. Durant, vice-president of the road, stopped at this point; cheers were given, the Sioux and Pawnees performed an imitation Indian battle, fireworks were let off, and the first number of the Railway Pioneer was printed by a press brought on the train.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had begun, perhaps in youthful imitation of Gottlieb, to work by himself in the laboratory at night.
-- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.
-- On their evenings off they went economically to an imitation Coney Island beside a scummy and stinking lake, and with grave pleasure they ate Hot Dogs, painstakingly they rode the scenic railway.
-- He protested shakily, but as he crawled back to his laboratory it seemed impossible for him to leave this sanctuary and face the murderous brawling world, and quite as impossible to tolerate a cheapened and ineffective imitation of his antitoxin.
-- But since I've gone and given an imitation of him--I suppose it was probably disloyal-- I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Angry,' I answered, with an involuntary imitation of his darkfrown.
-- After some search, it wasfound in the box, at the bottom of a horse's nose-bag; wherein(besides hay) there was discovered an old gold watch, with chainand seals, which Mr. Barkis had worn on his wedding-day, andwhich had never been seen before or since; a silver tobacco-stopper, in the form of a leg; an imitation lemon, full of minutecups and saucers, which I have some idea Mr. Barkis must havepurchased to present to me when I was a child, and afterwardsfound himself unable to part with; eighty-seven guineas and a half,in guineas and half-guineas; two hundred and ten pounds, inperfectly clean banknotes; certain receipts for Bank of Englandstock; an old horse-shoe, a bad shilling, a piece of camphor, and anoyster-shell.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she had not been there two minutes when she found that Harriet's habits of dependence and imitation were bringing her up too, and that, in short, they would both be soon after her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaned down across the counter until his mouth was near her ear and hissed, in a very creditable imitation ofthe stage villains who appeared infrequently at the Athenaeum Hall: "Fear not, fair lady!Your guilty secret is safe withme!"
-- Seeing Gerald's puzzled hurt face, she patted his knee again and managed an imitation ofthe pert smile he used to love.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, I started at once, and she leaned upon my shoulder, and we went away at a pace that might have been an imitation (founded on my first impulse under that roof) of Mr. Pumblechook's chaise-cart.
-- He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.
-- For now the last of the fleet of ships was round the last low point we had headed; and the last green barge, straw-laden, with a brown sail, had followed; and some ballast-lighters, shaped like a child's first rude imitation of a boat, lay low in the mud; and a little squat shoal-lighthouse on open piles stood crippled in the mud on stilts and crutches; and slimy stakes stuck out of the mud, and slimy stones stuck out of the mud, and red landmarks and tidemarks stuck out of the mud, and an old landing-stage and an old roofless building slipped into the mud, and all about us was stagnation and mud.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that I knew too well upon what solid reasons all the deter-minations of the wise Houyhnhnms were founded, not to be shaken by arguments of mine, a miserable Yahoo; and therefore, after presenting him with my humble thanks for the offer of his servants' assistance in making a vessel, and desiring a reasonable time for so difficult a work, I told 359him I would endeavour to preserve a wretched being; and if ever I returned to England, was not without hopes of being useful to my own species, by celebrating the praises of the renowned Houyhnhnms, and proposing their virtues to the imitation of mankind.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and tottered back to her chair with an amazing imitation of being in danger of swooning, in the dread surprise and maidenly flutter of her spirits.
-- 'Not that,' said Pancks, making, with great seriousness, an imitation of a surprised look and manner that appeared to be unintentionally grotesque.
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