Soon after his building was finished, builders in Chicago and New York City began copying and improving on the idea of building up.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

They have to adapt it to their own situation, but in many ways they're copying technology.

他们必须要将这些技术与当地国情相结合,但在很多方面他们仍是在重复这些技术

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Some people in less-developed countries feel uncomfortable that they are just slavishly copying other, more advanced countries; but, they have to recognize that is what everybody has been doing all along.

欠发达国家的人,对他们模仿其他发达国家的理论发明，感到不安;,但是他们应该知道,大家一直都在这么做。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Cassatt worked hard copying the great paintings hanging in the Louvre museum.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

In the U.S.,electric utilities lead the opposition to copying this rate structure, and to mandating purchases of alternative power.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23