| 单词 | model |
| 释义 | model (mɒdəl ) Word forms: models , modelling , modelled regional note: in AM, use modeling, modeled 1. countable noun A2 A model of an object is a physical representation that shows what it looks like or how it works. The model is often smaller than the object it represents. ...an architect's model of a wooden house. [+ of] ...a working scale model of the whole Bay Area. [+ of] I made a model out of paper and glue. Synonyms: representation, image, copy, miniature Model is also an adjective. I had made a model aeroplane. ...a model railway. 2. countable noun A model is a system that is being used and that people might want to copy in order to achieve similar results. [formal] We believe that this is a general model of managerial activity. He wants companies to follow the European model of social responsibility. [+ of] 3. countable noun A model of a system or process is a theoretical description that can help you understand how the system or process works, or how it might work. [technical, formal] Darwin eventually put forward a model of biological evolution. [+ of] He proposed a model of stress reaction in the body. 4. verb If someone such as a scientist models a system or process, they make an accurate theoretical description of it in order to understand or explain how it works. [technical, formal] ...the mathematics needed to model a nonlinear system like an atmosphere. [VERB noun] 5. countable noun If you say that someone or something is a model of a particular quality, you are showing approval of them because they have that quality to a large degree. [approval] A model of good manners, he has conquered any inward fury. [+ of] His marriage and family life is a model of propriety. 6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use model to express approval of someone when you think that they perform their role or duties extremely well. [approval] As a girl she had been a model pupil. Hospital staff say he is a model patient. 7. verb If one thing is modelled on another, the first thing is made so that it is like the second thing in some way. The quota system was modelled on those operated in America and continental Europe. [be V-ed + on/after] The program will be modeled after a popular BBC series called 'The Archers'. [be V-ed on/after n] She asked the author if she had modelled her hero on anybody in particular. [V n + on/after] Synonyms: base, shape, plan, found 8. verb If you model yourself on someone, you copy the way that they do things, because you admire them and want to be like them. There's absolutely nothing wrong in modelling yourself on an older woman. [V pron-refl + on/after] They will tend to model their behaviour on the teacher's behaviour. [V n + on/after] 9. countable noun A2 A particular model of a machine is a particular version of it. To keep the cost down, opt for a basic model. The model number is 1870/285. Synonyms: version, form, kind, design 10. countable noun B1+ An artist's model is a person who stays still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them. 11. verb If someone models for an artist, they stay still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them. Tullio has been modelling for Sandra for eleven years. [VERB + for] 12. countable noun B1 A fashion model is a person whose job is to display clothes by wearing them. ...Paris's top photographic fashion model. 13. verb If someone models, or models clothes, they display them by wearing them. I wasn't here to model clothes. [VERB noun] She began modelling in Paris aged 15. [VERB] modelling uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun] She was being offered a modelling contract. 14. verb If you model in a substance such as clay or wood, or model shapes or figures, you make them out of that substance. There she began to model in clay. [VERB] Sometimes she carved wood and sometimes stone; sometimes she modelled clay. [VERB noun] The artist modelled an appropriate animal for each voice. [VERB noun] Synonyms: shape, form, design, fashion 15. See also role model Quotations: Rules and models destroy genius and artSketches and Essays Collocations: business model The current bosses blame the business model that they inherited for their plight. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The company's business model is simple. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The music business, in particular, needs to rethink its business model. Times, Sunday Times (2007) But it took four months to create the full-sized clay model. The Sun There he would work into the evening, accompanied by classical music, often spending time in the garage, where he would have a clay model of his latest chassis. Times, Sunday Times From that clay model a caster would generate a plaster model. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1492 the clay model of the horse was completed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The design never passed the clay model stage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lowercase a and g follow the old style model of having two storeys. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sadly, what followed was stolid and old-fashioned — as if, in turning from soundtracks to choirs, he had modelled his style on worthy choral composers of the 1950s. Times, Sunday Times The development includes a range of house styles modelled around local themes, such as the former water tower that supplied the local area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Six local salons styled models based on nominated films and graced the stage during a live fashion presentation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His team hopes to examine more closely how this transmission works, establishing a viral model system that could be used to shed light on other species. Times, Sunday Times Each of these has its own advantages and disadvantages as a model system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Publication of the chicken genome enables expansion of transgenic techniques for advancing research within the chick model system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers using fission yeast as a model system also look at organelle dynamics and responses and the possible correlations between yeast cells and mammalian cells. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Much of this work employed the giant axon system of the squid as an experimental model system for molecular and biophysical approaches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If a side outperform the quality this model predicts, it might be random variation, but it also might reflect managerial skill and team culture. Times, Sunday Times This model predicts how the electroweak scale may match the top quark mass. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The model predicts that there are certain elementary particles even smaller than protons and neutrons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The model predicts reserve ability of a complex system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This model predicts the maximum expected variation of the measurement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The model proposes bringing back a form of the old divisional structure, which split the country into geographical units, to create a secondary competition. Times,Sunday Times One empirically-derived model proposes two dimensions (thinking and feeling) and three clusters: bond, information, and role. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To explain this selective attention, the distractor inhibition model proposes a dual mechanism involving excitation to boost target signal and inhibition to suppress distractors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Finally, the most recent model proposes a double link among the caseins for gelling to take place. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This model proposes that star formation propagates via the action of shock waves produced by stellar winds and supernovae that compose the interstellar medium. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The present model gives relief at the recipient's marginal tax rate. Times, Sunday Times Worries over income at those counties could be assuaged by a mix of compensation and another event designed broadly along the lines of the present model. Times, Sunday Times In most cases, the artist retains ownership of the 3d model; the customer only buys the right to use and present the model. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Green museums interpret their own sustainable practices and green design to present a model of behavior. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although actual lapse rates do not strictly follow these guidelines, they present a model sufficiently accurate to predict temperate changes associated with updrafts and downdrafts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its passion and candour provide the model for the nine songs that follow. Times, Sunday Times Yet this 1.7-acre plot of land could provide the model for the future of housing. Times, Sunday Times Arguably these two groups provide a model for other people. Times, Sunday Times It seems hard to believe: they look as if they had been set up to provide a model of rural content. Times, Sunday Times It was an experience that was to inform two pieces of research that provide a model of how science can and should contribute to better crime policy. Times, Sunday Times During that year she continued to freelance as a runway model. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He currently works as a print and runway model. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She used her cover as a high-profile runway model to move items through customs and reach her clients without attracting notice of authorities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition, because he had gone over budget by $227.95, he removed the blonde wigs he had planned for his runway models in order to drop below budget. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It turned out that with extremely big waves the simple model did not work so well. Times, Sunday Times In the 1960s we had a simple model of plasma. Times,Sunday Times Just take a simple model of central bank behaviour - tying short term interest rates to the economy's performance vis-a-vis its potential. Times, Sunday Times The simple model assumed by freemarket critics, of higher business costs leading to a reduction in headcount, hasn't been borne out by the facts. Times,Sunday Times We have to create a better and more sophisticated model, one that combines commercial success with long-term sustainable contributions. Times, Sunday Times Using a sophisticated model of climate change, researchers simulated the effect this would have had and found that photosynthesis would have been impossible. Times, Sunday Times Since then, with bigger samples and a more sophisticated model, we haven't been able to replicate this finding. Times, Sunday Times Similar networks are already being used by about 3,000 people in care-home settings but researchers now hope to introduce a much more sophisticated model for use in private homes. Times, Sunday Times These investigations have highlighted the complexity involved in delving into the sophisticated models used. Times, Sunday Times His rise prompted suspicion in the federation, which used a statistical model to compare his results against normal performance. Times,Sunday Times In sharp contrast, the twenty-first-century's impersonal, statistical model of credit scoring reflects an objectified individual who lacks an interior life but consists instead of the sum total of consumer choices. The Times Literary Supplement It has been proposed as a statistical model of intermitotic time in dividing cells. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The area of residency could then be introduced in the statistical model as a time-varying covariate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 White noise refers to a statistical model for signals and signal sources, rather than to any specific signal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These are the questions that fester en route to an audience with arguably the most successful model who has ever lived. Times, Sunday Times A successful model will be on a plane all the time, constantly re-packing to get to the next job. The Sun But past experience provides no successful model for such a shift to reliance on reserves. Times, Sunday Times It has spread its successful model throughout the world. Christianity Today Last year, the 26-year-old was a successful model. The Sun Then they tested their model with a survey of travellers. Times, Sunday Times Mock trials testing a model on how to use intercept evidence found that it breached defendants' human rights. Times, Sunday Times We were testing a model with a compliant but modestly powered 1.6 diesel engine and our feelings about the drive selector were mixed. Times, Sunday Times He designed a theoretical model to predict how fake news spreads on social networks. Smithsonian Mag The results indicated that overall, the program had been successfully implemented and displayed high fidelity to the theoretical model. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He developed a theoretical model of creative freedom that he calls projective simulation, which allows for a rudimentary form of creative behavior for artificial agents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The theoretical model assumes a probability distribution of the examples, and a function giving the exact target. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They developed a theoretical model of electron densities and the atomic scattering factor in solids. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Increasingly, we're coming up with a compromise — somewhere between open-plan and the more traditional model of separateness. Times, Sunday Times These organisations have spotted a market for a newish, growing breed of flat-sharers, older and with higher expectations who are dissatisfied with the traditional model. Times, Sunday Times Some faculty members are resisting with everything they can because they want to hang on to the traditional model. Christianity Today The university traditional model then was no longer going to be the sole route. Times, Sunday Times He noted that the traditional model of advertising, using media such as newspapers and television, was changing. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 模范的, 模型, 模仿, 模特 Japanese: 模範的な, 模型, 模型を作る, モデル |
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