a very typical example of a certain person or thing (一种人或物的)典型 the book is a perfect archetype of the genre. 这本书是这类风格的完美典型。 ■an original which has been imitated 原型 Marx gave us the archetype of the capitalist. 马克思向我们提供了资本家的典型原始形象。 ■a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology (文学、艺术或神话中)反复出现的象征(或主题) mythological archetypes of good and evil. 关于善与恶的神话中反复出现的主题。 ■(Psychoanalysis)(in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious (精神分析)(荣格理论中的)原始意象,原始型
派生 archetypical adjective 语源
mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon 'something moulded first as a model', from arkhe- 'primitive' + tupos 'a model'