汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 依葫芦画瓢
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

但并不罢休的他们2001年从乌克兰买来一架苏- 33原型机并依葫芦画瓢开发自己的版本,称为沈飞j - 15。

Undeterred, it bought a Su-33 prototype from Ukraine in 2001 and used that to develop its version, designated the Shenyang J-15.

当时我并不知道自己是在拼写一个单词,甚至根本不知道有文字的存在,我不过是比划着手指,依葫芦画瓢似的模仿而已。

I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.

显然,每家公司的高管都琢磨了对方赚得盆满钵满的方法及实现梦想的途径,并试图依葫芦画瓢,或至少让对方难以赚到钱。

Clearly top executives at each company look over at the others' POTS of gold and dream of ways to steal them, or at least make it harder for the other guy to make money.

胡雪岩为左宗棠采购军需,自然少不了与丝商打交道,他与“四象”之一的庞芸皋是十多年的商业伙伴,他们合伙做蚕丝生意,还一起倒卖军火,他在杭州开了一间胡庆余堂国药店,庞就依葫芦画瓢在南浔办了庞滋德国药店。

As a matter of fact, he had been doing business of silk and munitions with Pang Yunhao-one of the Four Elephants-for over a decade.