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A simulacrum is something made to look like another thing — a copy, a likeness, an image that stands in for the real one. Older writing uses it for statues and pictures of gods or people. Later writers, especially in art and philosophy, use it for a copy that may have drifted far from any original, or that never had a solid original at all. Though actually, in ordinary life most people never say it. They say copy, fake, model, or image. You meet simulacrum in books, criticism, and university talk. It can stay close to “likeness” (a wax figure as a simulacrum of the singer) or go stranger (a street built last year that only pretends to be old). The plural is usually simulacra, from the Latin, though simulacrums also appears. It is a learned noun; using it in the supermarket would sound odd.
擬像、仿製品、模擬物（偏書面、學術；日常較常說「複製品、仿冒」）
組成Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum “image, likeness,” from a verb stem simul(ā)- (tied to similis, “similar”) plus -crum, an ending that named a tool or means. Further back it sits with a very old root meaning “one; together.”
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。
simulacrumnoun/ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkɹəm/
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A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
- a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment
- [H]e crossed the haunted Almo, renowned of yore for its healing virtues, and whose stream the far-famed simulacrum, the image of Cybele,) which fell from heaven, was wont to be laved with every coming spring; […]
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A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation; a semblance.
- One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore! It were well for us to live not as fools and simulacra, but as wise and realities.
- He is become a mere enchanted simulacrum of a Duke; bewitched under worse than Thessalian spells; without faculty of willing, except as she wills; his People and he the plaything of this Circe or Hecate, that has got hold of him.
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。