carbon copy

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But when it comes to our elemental composition, we’re not a carbon copy.
然而，要說到地球上的另外一個主要組成元素——碳，則全部來自地球，非常純正。
If you want to create you have to get rid of all conditionings, otherwise your creativity will be nothing but copying, it will be just a carbon copy.
如果你想要有所創造，你就不得不擺脫一切身份，否則你所謂的創造力除了複制什麽都不是，僅僅是照葫蘆畫瓢而已。
When Clarke's appointment was announced last year he was expected to be a carbon copy of his former boss: both hail from Liverpool and have spent their entire careers at Tesco.
儅去年宣佈尅拉尅被指定爲接班人時，他被認爲是他的前任老板的繙版：因爲兩個人都從利物浦走出來，都在樂購度過了他們全部的職業生涯。

"To me,to adapt a book is not a question of producing a carbon copy of the book,"

The players were short and almost entirely devoid of talent—a carbon copy of the Fordham Rams.
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Most Venezuelans may not mind if the new constitution is merely a smudged carbon copy of its predecessor.
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Legislators were lining up to support a carbon copy of the Arizona law and polling showed support from 65 percent of the state.
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(DOCUMENT) a copy of a document, made with carbon paper
(SAME APPEARANCE) a person or thing that is very similar to or exactly like another person or thing

If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
A carbon copy is a copy of a piece of writing that is made using carbon paper.