copy

copy
(pl. -ies)
  1. a thing made to be similar or identical to another
    仿制品；复制品；拷贝
    the problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy.
    问题是要辨别哪个是原件，哪个是副本。
  2. a single specimen of a particular book, record, or other publication or issue
    （书、唱片、出版物的）（一份）样本
    the record has sold more than a million copies.
    这种唱片已售出100多万张。
  3. [mass noun]matter to be printed
    原稿；手稿
    copy for the next issue must be submitted by the beginning of the month.
    下一期手稿必须在下月初之前交上来。
    ■material for a newspaper or magazine article
    （报纸，杂志的）题材
    it is an unfortunate truth of today's media that bad news makes good copy.
    坏消息是好的新闻素材——这是当今媒体一个悲哀的事实。
    ■the text of an advertisement
    （广告的）文字说明
    ‘No more stubble—no more trouble,’ trumpeted their ad copy.
    “胡茬不在，烦恼不再！”他们的广告词吹嘘道。
(-ies, -ied)
[with obj.]
  1. make a similar or identical version of; reproduce
    仿造；复制
    each form had to be copied and sent to a different department.
    每张表格都要复印并送往各部门。
    ■(Computing)reproduce (data stored in one location) in another location
    (计算机)复制，拷贝
    the command will copy a file from one disc to another.
    命令要将文件从一个磁盘拷贝到另一个磁盘。
    ■write out information that one has read or heard
    复写；记录（听过，看过的内容）
    he copied the details into his notebook.
    他将细节抄写在笔记本上。
    I began to copy out the addresses.
    我开始记录地址。
    ■behave in a similar way to; do the same as
    模仿
    she was such fun that everybody wanted to copy her.
    她那么有趣以至于人人都想模仿她。
    ■imitate or reproduce (an idea or style) rather than creating something original
    仿效；因袭（思想，风格）
    lifestyles copied from Miami and Fifth Avenue.
    仿效迈阿密和第五大街的生活方式。
    [no obj.]art students copied from approved old masters.
    模仿名家的艺术系学生。
    ■(copy something to)send a copy of a letter to (a third party)
    将（信的）复印件发给（第三方）
语源
  1. Middle English (denoting a transcript or copy of a document): from Old French copie (noun), copier (verb), from Latin copia 'abundance' (in medieval Latin 'transcript', from such phrases as copiam describendi facere 'give permission to transcribe')
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