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An impersonator is someone who copies the way another person looks, speaks, and moves, usually as a show. An Elvis impersonator is the classic picture: the hair, the voice, the clothes, on a stage. People hire impersonators for parties and TV. Though actually, the verb impersonate can also mean pretending to be someone in order to trick people — that can be a crime — but impersonator in ordinary English almost always means the performer. And though many words in this set start with im- meaning “not,” this im- is the “into” kind: you step into another person. You do not “un-person” them.
模仿藝人(台灣常聯想到「模仿秀」)
組成From impersonate + -or (a person who does the action). Impersonate itself is im- in the “into” sense + person: you step into someone else's person. This im- is not the “not” prefix.
同家族的字
- impersonatethe verb: to copy someone as a performance, or sometimes as a trick
- personthe person inside the word: you put on another person
原始詞典資料2 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。
impersonatornoun
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One who fraudulently impersonates another person.
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An entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others.
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。