DictionaryThe Oxford English

Dictionary

First published 1933Reprinted 1961

Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4

IMITATION1. The action or practice of imitating or

copying. Arts of imitation = imitative arts Phrase: in imitation of; after the,

according to the, out of an imitation of; in his imitation

2. The result or product of imitating; a copy, an artificial likeness; a thing made to look like something else, which it is not; a counterfeit

3. Literature. ‘A method of translating looser than paraphrase, in which modern examples and illustrations are used for ancient, or domestick for

Foreign’; a composition of this nature4. Mus. The repetition of a phrase or

melody, usually at a different pitch, in another part or voice, either with the same intervals, rhythm, motion, etc. (exact imitation), or with these more or less modified (free imitation: see also Augmentation, Diminution, Inversion).

ps: inversion: the process of inverting an interval, chord or phrase augmentation: the lengthening of the time values of notes in a melodic part

diminution: the shortening of the time values of notes in a melodic part

5. attrib. Made ( of less costly material) in imitation of a real or genuine article or substance.

Web page

• http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/cim/abstracts/woojae.html

• It’s a research that done by the University of Cambridge.

• It has a positive point of view in the term ‘imitation’.• It shows the connection between imitation and

innovation.• Why I choose this web page:• Imitation may not only be plagiarism.• Learn from others and adopt their advantages and

innovate.

Noun. 1. Mo Fang 模仿

Many people think that children learn language by imitation.

2. Yan Pin 赝品

She wears an imitation fur coat.

• When I was in RenMing University of China, there was a course which named English Through Movies. We would watch a classical English movie every class, and The Sound of Music was one of them. After watching, we would do a imitation for a part of this movie which we selected by ourselves. For that movie, my partner, Zhao Ziqiao, and I selected the scene that the captain argued with Maria by the river which I thought was very difficult one for me.

So I practiced it again and again in my dormitory which took me one hour every day, and at last my partner and I had a good performance in the class and we got a high mark.

• Not giving you up to the devils inside your head.

• Not gonna let go till the answers are clear.

• There's dark clouds moving in.• So many a times when the walls start to

breathe you hear (shh... nobody knows)• Still nobody knows but they've got their

own plans• And I'm afraid for you• And I'd like to end this soon.

• 'Cause it's you in my arms tonight.• I don't need an imitation.• Yeah, it's you that I'm thinking of.• I don't need an imitation.• I just want the real creation.

• Been spinning around now the phantoms embrace your fears.

• Wrapped up in the eyes of the pictures you scattered

• All throughout your room.• No one's there, who you talking to?• 'Cause it's you in my arms tonight.• I don't need an imitation.

Imitation By Mêlée

• Yeah, it's you that I'm thinking of.• I don't need an imitation.• Oh, it's you in my arms tonight.• I don't need an imitation.• Yeah, it's you that I'm thinking of.• I don't need an imitation.• I just want the real creation.

• Come and look• Describe what you see.• Is there hope standing next to me?• Behind the hurt.• Behind the pain.• Nothing resolves when you hide away?

Ohh.

• 'Cause it's you in my arms tonight.• I don't need an imitation. (I don't need an

imitation)• Yeah, it's you that I'm thinking of.• I don't need an imitation. (I don't need an

imitation)• Yeah, it's you in my arms tonight.• I don't need an imitation. (I don't need an

imitation)• Oh, it's you that I'm thinking of.• I don't need an imitation.• I just want the real creation.