duplicate
verb🔊/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪt/
🔊/ˈduːplɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they duplicate | 🔊/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪt/ 🔊/ˈduːplɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it duplicates | 🔊/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪts/ 🔊/ˈduːplɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple duplicated | 🔊/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈduːplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle duplicated | 🔊/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈduːplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form duplicating | 🔊/ˈdjuːplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈduːplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] duplicate something
to make an exact copy of something 复制；复印；复写 Please keep the duplicated form and send us the original. 请保留表格的副本，把正本寄给我们。 This is a natural look which you can easily duplicate at home. 这是很自然的样式，你可以很容易地在家里复制。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- exactly
- simply
- easily
- …
- duplicate something
to do something again, especially when it is unnecessary （尤指不必要时）重复，再做一次 There's no point in duplicating work already done. 重复别人已经做过的工作毫无意义。 🔊🔊 The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicated. 最初的实验不能精确地重现。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- exactly
- simply
- easily
- …
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Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘having two corresponding parts’): from Latin duplicat- ‘doubled’, from the verb duplicare, from duplic- ‘twofold’, from duo ‘two’ + plicare ‘to fold’.