释义 |
prototypical /prəʊtəˈtɪpɪk(ə)l /adjectiveDenoting the first, original, or typical form of something: the prototypical vehicle the phone emerged as the prototypical example of point-to-point communication...- Here we have a prototypical example of a probably preventable disaster permitted to happen by an unwillingness to spend the necessary money to prevent it.
- This is the prototypical example of a case ripe for Supreme Court review.
- He fits the description of a prototypical action hero.
Derivatives prototypically /prəʊtəˈtɪpɪk(ə)li/ adverb ...- The film deals with a prototypically modern drama at a postmodern moment.
- Mostly, the material they reviewed was regarded as prototypically blasphemous or sexually explicit, but there was wide variation in content.
- Prototypically, these verb tenses 'locate' a situation in present time or past time.
Rhymes atypical, stereotypical, typical |