| 单词 | paradigm |
| 释义 | paradigm (once / 10190 pages) 1n 2n 3n A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something. A paradigm is a new way of looking or thinking about something. This word comes up a lot in the academic, scientific, and business worlds. A new paradigm in business could mean a new way of reaching customers and making money. In education, relying on lectures is a paradigm: if you suddenly shifted to all group work, that would be a new paradigm. When you change paradigms, you're changing how you think about something. WORD FAMILYparadigm: paradigmatic, paradigms USAGE EXAMPLESThe company is plugging into what it refers to as a “paradigm shift” in how business leaders view office space. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The study authors say it's time for a “paradigm shift” in thinking about cheetah conservation. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) It was at least as much due to aging: My aesthetic reflexes weren’t fast enough to kick it with Lemonade’s immediate multimedia paradigm shift. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1n a standard or typical example Syn|Hypo|Hyper epitome, image, prototype concentrate a concentrated example of something imago(psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood example, model a representative form or pattern 2n the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time 2he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm Hyper perspective, position, view a way of regarding situations or topics etc. n systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word 3Hyper inflection, inflexion a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function n the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) Syn|Hyper substitution class category, class, family a collection of things sharing a common attribute |
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