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英语单词 prototype
英美音标 英 ['prəʊtətaɪp] 美 ['proʊtətaɪp]
中文释义 n.原型;范例;雏形
英语例句 (1) The strange mechanical device is the prototype of modern cars.
(2) Designers have built a working prototype of the car.
(3) This is the prototype for future school buildings.
(4) He is the prototype of good breeding.
(5) Something derives from a prototype.
中文例句 (1) 这个奇怪的机械装置是现代汽车的原型。
(2) 设计者已经制造了汽车的工作原型。
(3) 这是未来的学校建筑的蓝本。
(4) 他是具有良好教养的典范。
(5) 一些事物是从雏形演化而来的。
vocabulary简明 A prototype is the original model, like a sample on which to base future designs. A company designing a new toaster will first design and build a prototype, to test it out and see if it's any good.
vocabulary扩展 A prototype is your test case and becomes the model on which to base the design of the finished product. Often, however, the prototype can be a phase to work out the bugs. The prototype of our hands-free toothbrush was too dangerous; it needed to return to the lab for serious improvements. Like the word archetype, the word prototype can also mean the standard on which to base a definition of something. "A prototypical cheerleader is the girl to which all other cheerleaders might aspire."
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]原型;样品;样本 A prototype is a new type of machine or device which is not yet ready to be made in large numbers and sold.
  [oft N of n]
  • Chris Retzler has built a prototype of a machine called the wave rotor.

    克里斯·雷茨勒已制造出了一种叫波转子的机器的样机。

  • ...the first prototype aircraft.

    第一架飞机样机

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]模范;典型 If you say that someone or something is a prototype of a type of person or thing, you mean that they are the first or most typical one of that type.
  [usu N of n]
  • He was the prototype of the elder statesman.

    他是老一辈政治家的典型。

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