archetype

archetype
[ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp]
noun
  1. 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
  1. mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon 'something moulded first as a model', from arkhe- 'primitive' + tupos 'a model'
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