- 1效法、向…看齊。電腦上也說「模擬」（讓程式表現得像另一套系統）。
To emulate someone is to do things the way they do them, because you admire them and want to be that good — or nearly that good. It is stronger and more respectful than copy. You emulate a player, a writer, a teacher you look up to. The word is a little formal. Though actually, computer people stretched it: a program can emulate another machine, meaning it behaves as if it were that machine, so old software still runs. Same idea — act like the other thing — but used on tools, not people.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Latin aemulātus, from aemulor 'to rival, emulate'.
借自拉丁文 aemulātus，來自 aemulor「與人競爭、效法」。
組成Borrowed from Latin aemulātus, from aemulor, “to rival, to try to equal.” English uses it as a verb with -ate. First seen in English in 1586.
同家族的字
- emulation名詞：效法、仿效這件事
- emulator那個去效法的人；電腦上則是「模擬器」
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
emulateverb/ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/
- 1
archaicTo attempt to equal or be the same as.
- 2
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
- People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
- The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
- 3
obsoleteTo feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
- But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
- 4
computingengineeringmathematicsof a program or device: to imitate another program or device
emulateadj/ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/
- 1
obsoleteStriving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
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摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。