take after

英 [teɪk ˈɑːftə(r)]

美 [teɪk ˈæftər]

（在外表、举止、性格方面）像（某家庭成员）

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (在外表、举止、性格方面)像(某家庭成员)
  If youtake aftera member of your family, you resemble them in your appearance, your behaviour, or your character.
  1. Ted's always been difficult, Mr Kemp — he takes after his dad.
     肯普先生，特德一直很难相处——像他爸。

英英释义

verb

• imitate in behavior
  1. Teenagers follow their friends in everything
  Synonym:follow
• be similar to a relative
  1. She takes after her father!

双语例句

• The twins take after their mother.
  这对双胞胎和她们的父母很像。
• The children take after their father in his way of speaking.
  这些孩子说话时后的样子活像他们的父亲。
• As soon as his horned friend were down, William turned, clinked off like a long-dog, and jumped safe over hedge, before the praying bull had got on his feet again to take after him.
  威廉等到他那长角的朋友一跪下去，就转过身去像一条猎狗蹿起来，祈祷的公牛还没有站起来向他追过去，他已经跳过树篱平安无事了。
• Arlene seems to take after her grandmother more than her mother.
  阿琳似乎像祖母不太像母亲。
• He'd got a way of his own and I tend to take after him.
  他有他自己的行事方式，我倒有些像他。
• Peter doesn't seem to take after either of his parents; the person he resembles most is his uncle John.
  彼得长得似乎不象他的父母亲，而最象他的叔叔约翰。
• With her light hair and blue eyes she seems to take after her mother, but in her character she is more like her father.
  她的金发碧眼似乎遗传自她母亲，但是个性方面就像她父亲。
• To my surprise, Jack does not take after his father at all.
  令我惊奇的是，杰克和他爸爸长的一点儿也不像。
• You take after your father.2.She looks just like her mother.
  你长得像你父亲。2。她长得像她母亲。
• I take after my mother's family.
  我比较像母亲家族的人。