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 ar·che·type /ˈɑrkɪˌtaɪp/
 原型

 ar·che·type /ˈɑrkɪˌtaɪp/ 名詞
 原始型

 Ar·che·type n.
 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
    The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet.   --Macaulay.
    Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world.   --South.
 2. Coinage The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
 3. Biol. The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.
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 archetype
      n : an original model on which something is patterned [syn: original,
           pilot]