an exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale (尤指比原物小的)复制品,模型,仿样;摹本 a replica of the Empire State Building. 帝国大厦的模型。 ■a duplicate of an original artistic work 复制艺术品
语源
mid 18th cent. (as a musical term in the sense 'a repeat'): from Italian, from replicare 'to reply'