生き写し

いきうつし【生き写し】

*image

/ímidʒ/ 〖C〗《略式》［(the) ～］ よく似た人［物］

**picture

《略式》［a/the ～］ 具現したもの；生き写し

He is the picture of his grandfather. 彼は祖父に生き写しだ

*model

〖C〗《英略式》［通例 a perfect ～］ よく似た人［物］

*match

〖C〗［(a/one's) ～］生き写し［同一］の人［物］

carbon copy

〖C〗(カーボン紙による)写し；《略式》うり二つ.

▲He is the very counterpart of his father. 彼はまったく父親に生き写しだ(＝《略式》He is the spitting image of his father. ).

◇ → 生き写しの

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いきうつし【生き写し】

〔親子などが〕 the (living [《口》 spitting]) image 《of one's father》; 〔絵などが〕 the (living [《口》 spitting]) image 《of sb》; 《口》 a dead ringer for sb.

●あの子は父親に生き写しだ. That girl is [looks] exactly [precisely] like her father. | The boy is a carbon copy [the very picture, 《口》 the spitting image, the living image] of his father.

・君は 30 年前のお父さんに生き写しだ. You look exactly as your father did thirty years ago. | You could be taken for your father (as he looked) thirty years ago.

・この肖像画はあの人に生き写しだ. This portrait is exactly like him [《口》 the spitting image of him]. | This portrait is him to the life.