replicate
verb /ˈreplɪkeɪt/
/ˈreplɪkeɪt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they replicate | /ˈreplɪkeɪt/ /ˈreplɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it replicates | /ˈreplɪkeɪts/ /ˈreplɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple replicated | /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle replicated | /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form replicating | /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] replicate something (formal) to copy something exactly
复制；（精确地）仿制 - Subsequent experiments failed to replicate these findings.
后来的实验没有得出同样的结果。 - The format of the seminar day will be replicated in each Sports Council region.
研讨会日的形式将在每个体育理事会区域复制。
- Subsequent experiments failed to replicate these findings.
- [transitive, intransitive] replicate (itself) (specialist) (of a virus or a molecule
病毒或分子 再造；再生；自我复制 - The drug prevents the virus from replicating itself.
这种药能防止病毒复制。
- The drug prevents the virus from replicating itself.
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘repeat’): from Latin replicat-, from the verb replicare, from re- ‘back, again’ + plicare ‘to fold’. The current senses date from the late 19th cent.