Prototype
['prəʊtətaɪp] or ['protə'taɪp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a standard or typical example; 'he is the prototype of good breeding'; 'he provided America with an image of the good father'.
整理:贾丝廷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
整理:斯特拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Original pattern, model, type, exemplar, example, archetype, protoplast.
艾布拉姆編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the first or original type or model from which anything is copied: an exemplar: a pattern.—adjs. Prō′totypal Prōtotyp′ical.
埃伦校對
例句/造句/用法:
- They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The prototype of all machines designed to bind the grain before being delivered to the ground is the Marsh harvester. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- You have many eyes, my Argos, resumed Justinian, after a pause, but your human prototype has none at all. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Sturgeon invents prototype of Electro Magnet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- As the prototype of the dynamo, it is worthy of illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This was the prototype of the familiar _ticker_ of the stock broker’s office, seen in Figs. 10 and 11. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The harp with which David stirred the dead soul of Saul was the prototype of the sweet clavichord, the romantic virginal, the tinkling harpsichord, and the grand piano. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The prototype of the electric automobile, however, is best represented in the French patent to M. Grounelle, No. 7,728, Feb. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Railway Locomotion, however, forms no exception to the rule, that most modern inventions have their prototypes in the contrivances of ages past. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The application of machinery in the harvest-field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Embryology will often reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- These were the prototypes of the lighted buoys which have since become familiar, as in the channel off Sandy Hook. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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