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/ˈspɪtɪŋ ˈɪmɪdʒ/
If one person is the spitting image of another, they look exactly like them — so alike that people notice straight away. It is used most often about people in the same family.
跟某人長得一模一樣
複數 spitting images
核心畫面
Picture two faces held side by side — an old photo next to the person holding it — and the same round cheeks, the same gap in the front teeth, looking back at you twice. Not similar. The same. That is the whole of this expression, and it is why people say it the moment they see the photo.
「spitting image」可以想成把兩張臉並排放在一起看：一張是舊照片，一張是拿著照片的人，同樣的圓臉、同樣的…更多收起
「spitting image」可以想成把兩張臉並排放在一起看：一張是舊照片，一張是拿著照片的人，同樣的圓臉、同樣的門牙縫，就這樣看著你兩次。不是「有點像」。是一樣。這個說法要講的就只有這件事，所以人們往往是照片一翻出來就脫口而出。From the word’s history
Wiktionary records this as an alteration of the earlier spitten image, which developed from spit and image, where spit in this context meant likeness. The popular story about a father spitting out a child whole is named there as folk etymology, and the suggested link to spirit is described as lacking evidence.
依據 Wiktionary，這個說法是從較早的 spitten image 變來的，而 spitten image 又來自 spit and image；在這個組合裡，spit 的意思是「相像」，不是吐口水。至於「父親把孩子整個吐出來」那個說法，來源明白標示為民間附會；另一種把 spit 連到 spirit 的推測，來源指出缺乏證據。所以這個字面畫面其實是後來被想像出來的。
Wiktionary entry for spitting image, supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1215213946:10499)