| 单词 | model |
| 释义 | mod·el I. 1. obsolete < we first survey the plot, then draw the model — Shakespeare > 2. dialect Britain < had my father's signet in my purse, which was the model of that Danish seal — Shakespeare > 3. obsolete < model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a mighty heart — Shakespeare > 4. < built his home on the model of an old farmhouse > < began his teaching by organizing a seminar on the German model — J.S.Bassett > < providing for the founding of New Jersey towns on the New England model — American Guide Series: New Jersey > 5. archaic 6. a. < a mile-long concrete model of the Mississippi valley — Time > < a 15-foot model of a full-rigged ship — American Guide Series: Maryland > < miniature, like some exquisite model seen through a glass case — Osbert Sitwell > b. 7. < made many models of the coin before he was satisfied with one > 8. < brevity that renders both writers such valuable models to an age whose worst literary fault is diffuseness — Richard Garnett †1906 > < still remains a model of scientific argument — B.W.Bacon > < his written addresses are models of clearness, logical order, and style — A.B.Noble > 9. < his father was the model for one of the most famous characters in literature > especially < his wife served as the model for many of his early paintings > 10. 11. 12. < left school to go to work as a dress model in the garment district — Current Biography > < he has appeared as a model in advertisements for cigars > 13. a. (1) < favors the Alaskan-trapper model with a high guard at the toe — R.L.Neuberger > (2) < girls, self-conscious in their Paris models — Paul Bowles > b. < offers eight new models for next year, including a completely restyled convertible > c. 14. a. b. < his model of an election procedure based on permanent personal registration reveals some of the problems to be solved > < constructed the first of the world models of the present century — S.F.Mason > Synonyms: < a workmen's compensation law which is still considered a model piece of legislation — Current Biography > < models for the development of his own habitual responses to various situations — Ralph Linton > < the very model of a modern major general — W.S.Gilbert > example applies chiefly to a person to be imitated or, in some contexts, emphatically not to be imitated since his case serves not as an inducement but as a warning < one of the immortal examples of a true man in a world of bounders, cowards, and squeaking specters — W.L.Sullivan > < presents an example in modern department store designing — Retailing Daily > < making the mutineers examples for the rest of the crew > pattern may suggest a clear or detailed archetype or prototype < many hymns that set the pattern for the stately hymnology of the American Protestant Church — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < the ancient pattern of life had been woven continuously for so many centuries that even illiterate farmers knew how to be courtly and dignified at family celebrations or at the great yearly festivals — John Blofeld > exemplar indicates either a faultless example to be emulated or a perfect typification < Christianity was primarily an ethical system; Christ was its great teacher and exemplar; and to be a Christian meant to conduct one's life in accordance with the principles which governed Him — A.C.McGiffert > < the living exemplar of tragedy as the human lot — V.S.Pritchett > paradigm, now rare in this sense, may suggest an exemplar of a perfection impossible or unusual in reality < a love worthy of being a paradigm of the cosmic relation of universal matter and universal form, this all-comprising power, cannot be a vague feeling — F.P.Bargebuhr > ideal indicates the best possible exemplification either in reality or in a mental conception < he had the courage and rebelliousness of his … cousins too much on his mind; they were his ideal — Glenway Wescott > < a multitude of stories and traditions grew up around his name, to be interpreted according to the hearers' own ideals of personality and education — D.E.Smith > beau ideal sometimes is taken to mean “beautiful ideal” < the very beau ideal of a perfect government is the government of a majority, acting through a representative body — J.C.Calhoun > standard may indicate that which embodies criteria for excellence and sets a high example for emulation < the ideal of general cultivation has been one of the standards in education — C.W.Eliot > < human life on earth cannot continue unless we ordinary men and women can manage to practice these virtues up to a far higher standard — A.J.Toynbee > mirror was once often used to mean a model of perfection < bounteous Buckingham, the mirror of all courtesy — Shakespeare > II. transitive verb 1. < modeled a double-decked steamboat — Waldemar Kaempffert > 2. archaic 3. a. < a file of plasticene animals modeled by the little girls — Elizabeth Bowen > b. < models the head so that it seems to stand out from the canvas > c. < a modeling light for portraiture > < use shadows to lend interest to the scene, to model it, give it emphasis — Aaron Sussman > 4. < modeled its constitution on that of the U.S. > < as for the speeches to Congress, they were palpably modeled upon the speeches from the throne of the English kings — H.L.Mencken > 5. < modeled her inaugural gowns at a fashion show — New York Times > < famous for modeling refrigerators and other appliances > intransitive verb 1. < she enjoys modeling in clay > 2. < asked each contestant … to model before the judges' enclosure — Lillian Ross > III. < a model house > < a model husband > < a model farm > IV. 1. < climate models > 2. 3. V. < using a computer to model a problem > |
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