- a thing made to be similar or identical to another仿制品; 复制品; 拷贝; 副本：
the problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy.
问题是要辨别哪个是原件, 哪个是副本。
- a single specimen of a particular book, record, or other publication or issue（书、唱片、出版物的）（一）本; （一）份; （一）张：
the record has sold more than a million copies.
该唱片已售出100多万张。
- mass noun matter to be printed原稿; 手稿; 稿件：
copy for the next issue must be submitted by the beginning of the month.
下一期的稿件必须在月初之前交上来。
- material for a newspaper or magazine article（报纸、杂志的）题材：
it is an unfortunate truth of today's media that bad news makes good copy.
坏消息是好的新闻素材——这是当今媒体一个悲哀的事实。
- the text of an advertisement广告文字, 广告词：
'No more stubble - no more trouble,' trumpeted their ad copy.
“胡茬不在, 烦恼不再！”他们的广告词吹嘘道。
- make a similar or identical version of; reproduce仿造; 复制; 复印：
each form had to be copied and sent to a different department.
每张表格都要复印并送往各部门。
- Computing reproduce (data stored in one location) in another location【计算机】复制, 拷贝：
the command will copy a file from one disc to another.
命令将把文件从一个磁盘拷贝到另一个磁盘。
- write out information that one has read or heard复写; 记下（所见所闻）：
he copied the details into his notebook
他将细节记在笔记本上
I began to copy out the addresses.
我开始记录地址。
copy something to
send a copy of a letter to (a third party)将（信的）复印件发给（第三方）。
- (copy someone in) send someone a copy of an email that is addressed to a third party给…抄送（电子邮件）：
I attached the document and copied him in so he'd know it had been sent.
我把那份文件添加为附件并抄送给他, 以便他知道文件已经发出。
- imitate the style or behaviour of模仿…的风格（或行为）：
lifestyles that were copied from Miami and Fifth Avenue
从迈阿密和第五大道模仿而来的生活方式
no obj. art students copied from approved old masters.艺术专业学生师法人们公认的大师。
- no obj. hear or understand someone speaking on a radio transmitter听见（或明白）无线电收发报机中讲话人的话：
this is Edwards, do you copy, over.
我是爱德华兹, 你收到了吗, 完毕。