clone /kləʊn/ CET4 TEM4 ( cloning, cloned, clones )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT 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. 翻版

  例：

  Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.

  汤姆在某些方面是他英俊父亲年轻时的翻版。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT 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. 克隆

  例：

  ...the world's first human clone.

  …世界上第一个克隆人。

• 3. 

  V-T To clone an animal or plant means to produce it as a clone. 对…进行克隆

  例：

  The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction.

  对绝种的生命形式进行克隆的想法仍然属于科学幻想。