照抄 (zhào chāo) — to copy word-for-word, to indiscriminately imitate

Definition

Examples

• 他写论文的时候总是照抄别人的，自己从来不思考。
  Tā xiě lùn wén de shí hou zǒng shì zhào chāo bié rén de, zì jǐ cóng lái bù sī kǎo.
  He always copies others word-for-word when writing papers and never thinks for himself.
• 这个设计是照抄原版的，完全没有创新。
  Zhè ge shè jì shì zhào chāo yuán bǎn de, wán quán méi yǒu chuàng xīn.
  This design is a word-for-word copy of the original, with no innovation at all.
• 你不能照抄课本上的答案，要自己理解。
  Nǐ bù néng zhào chāo kè běn shàng de dá àn, yào zì jǐ lǐ jiě.
  You can't just copy the answers from the textbook; you need to understand them yourself.

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