本指按照成法制造中药，引申为依照现成的方法办事（含贬义）。炮（páo）。
如法炮制 [rú fǎ páo zhì]
1. be modeled on; do as someone else has done; follow sb.'s example; follow suit; imitate what was done by others; make sth. by an old formula; play the sedulous ape; prepare herbal medicine by the prescribed method -- to follow a set pattern依照成法，炮制中药。比喻照样仿做。
朱自清《古文学的欣赏》：“我们不妨如法炮制，用白话来尝试。”
Followed suit
"苦"必须去受才可消除我如法炮制(Followed suit)，偷了妈妈的一枚金戒(Gold Ring)指去换那枚棋子，我能感觉到你的心痛，你有你说不出的无奈..
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浙江省湖州市2010-2011学年高三第二次教学质量检测语文试题卷 ... (mǐ) 如法炮制 (páo) 愀然作色 (chǔ) 殷红 ...
印度和巴基斯坦也会如法炮制。
Then India would follow suit, as would Pakistan.
中国的建筑、艺术、音乐和电影都是如法炮制而来，甚至连中国的很多企业都只是一家美国公司的副本。
Chinese architecture and art, music and movies are derivative, and many a Chinese enterprise is merely a carbon copy of an American one.
再次选择这个工具，我们再次如法炮制，但是这次已有的选区使得建立蒙版更方便。
Select this tool again and we are going to do the same as before, however the selection has made it much easier.
如法炮制：仿照成法，炮制药物，泛指照现成的方法办事。炮制：用烘、炒等针药材制成中药。中药材在应用或制成剂型前，进行必要加工处理的过程。又称炮炙、修事、修治等。其中炮炙也专指用火加工处理药材的方法。
