EMULATE    學習

IMITATE so as to make an EFFORT to BECOME EQUALLY EXCELLENT.
IMITATECOPYMIRRORECHOFOLLOWMODEL ONESELF ONMATCHEQUALPARALLELBE ON A PAR WITHBE IN THE SAME LEAGUE ASCOME CLOSE TOCOMPETE WITHCONTEND WITHRIVALSURPASSTAKE A LEAF OUT OF SOMEONE'S BOOK
Modern Chinese Criteria
學習 看齊 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • IMITATE　CONFORM to TYPICAL ACTIONS of a HUMAN OR ANIMAL so as to RESEMBLE THAT HUMAN OR ANIMAL. (anc: 13/0, child: 3)
  • CONFORM　ACT so as to NOT to OFFEND against RULES OR a MODEL. (anc: 12/0, child: 6)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 455

    AEMULARI aliquem re aliqua est agere idem propter eundem finem, aeqvandi vel superandi studio. Ergo est inter aeqvales, aut quasi.

    Tria ergo in aemulando concurrunt

    1. Exemplum rei laudabilis.

    2. Admiratio ejus et amor cum invidia.

    3. Eoque illud imitandi conatus.

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p. 26

    AEMULATIO

  • Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages ( DE VAAN 2008) p.

    aemulus 'emulous, rival' [adj. o/a] (Lucr.+)

    Derivatives: aemulus [m.] 'rival' (Ter.+), aemula (P1.+) 'female rival', aemulari 'to

    rival, emulate' (P1.+).

    • Words (6 items)

    師  shī OC: sril MC: ʂi 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNemulate
    象似  xiàng sì OC: sɢlaŋʔ sɢlɯʔ MC: zi̯ɐŋ zɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNmodel oneself on, become a micro-image of
    比  bǐ OC: piʔ MC: pi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNemulate
    考甫  kǎo fǔ MC: khawX pjuX OC: khuuʔ paʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vito emulateCW
    學  xué OC: ɡruuɡ MC: ɦɣɔk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNemulate a person N; try to live up the demands of another person
    希  xī OC: qhlɯl MC: hɨi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt[oN]emulate others
    • vtoNemulate