Clone Animal Plant Copy Exact Phone Person Produced
The term "clone" refers to an exact copy, whether it's a person, animal, plant, or even a computer. It can also be used as a verb meaning to create such a copy, especially through artificial means like asexual reproduction or laboratory technology.
[N-COUNT 可数名词]极为相似的人(或事物) If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
[usu with supp]
Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father...
汤姆某些地方长得和他那帅气的父亲一模一样,只是年轻一些。
Designers are mistaken if they believe we all want to be supermodel clones.
要是设计师认为所有人都想和超模一样,那他们就错了。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]克隆动物(或植物);无性繁殖动物(或植物) A clone is an animal or plant that has been produced artificially, for example in a laboratory, from the cells of another animal or plant. A clone is exactly the same as the original animal or plant.
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[VERB 动词]克隆;以无性繁殖技术复制 To clone an animal or plant means to produce it as a clone.
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The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction.
克隆已经灭绝的生物的想法仍旧只限于科幻小说中。
Oxford
clone/kləʊn; NAmEkloʊn/
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cloneclonesclonedcloningnoun1( biology 生) a plant or an animal that is produced naturally or artificially from the cells of another plant or animal and is therefore exactly the same as it 克隆动物(或植物);无性繁殖动物(或植物);复制动物(或植物)2( sometimes disapproving) a person or thing that seems to be an exact copy of another 好像一模一样的人;复制品;仿造品;翻版3( computing 计) a computer designed to work in exactly the same way as another, usually one made by a different company and more expensive 复制器;仿制机verb1clonesth to produce an exact copy of an animal or a plant from its cells 以无性繁殖技术复制;克隆◆A team from the UK were the first to successfully clone an animal.英国的一个小组率先克隆动物成功。◆Dolly, the cloned sheep复制羊多利2clonesth to illegally make an electronic copy of stored information from a person's credit card or mobile/cell phone so that you can make payments or phone calls but the owner of the card or phone receives the bill 非法复制,克隆(复制他人信用卡或手机的贮存信息,从而使卡主或机主付费)clone/kləʊn; NAmEkloʊn/
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cloneclone1 /kləʊn $ kloʊn/ ●○○ noun [countable]
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1 technical an animal or plant produced by scientists from one cell of another animal or plant, so that they are exactly the same2 technical a computer that is built as an exact copy of a more famous computer: an IBM clone3informal someone or something that looks and behaves exactly the same as someone or something elseclone of She’s an exact clone of her sister!
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cloneclone2 ●○○ verb [transitive]
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1to make an exact copy of a plant or animal by taking a cell from it and developing it artificially2to copy the number of someone else’s mobile phone onto a new chip and then use that number on a different telephone, so that the mobile phone’s owner receives the telephone bill
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[kləʊn]cloned, cloning, clones
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clones[1532]
克隆(81%),复制(14%),无性繁殖(3%),复制品(2%)
n.克隆;无性系;无性繁殖;靠营养生殖而由母体分离繁殖的植物
vt.无性繁殖,复制
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