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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.
效法、向…看齊。電腦上也說「模擬」（讓程式表現得像另一套系統）。
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/
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archaicTo attempt to equal or be the same as.
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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.
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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 [...].
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computingengineeringmathematicsof a program or device: to imitate another program or device
emulateadj/ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/
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obsoleteStriving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。