Scientists are building computer models of the ocean currents.
科學家正在建立計算機洋流模型。
5SB/STH to copy 可效仿的人/事物IMITATE someone or something which people want to copy because they are successful or have good qualities 值得效仿的做事方式,典範
model for
It served as a model for other cities.
這爲其他城市作出了榜樣。
He used English medieval architecture as his model.
他以中世紀的英國建築作爲模板。
role model (=someone that you try to copy because they have qualities you would like to have) 榜樣
Good teachers can act as positive role models.
好老師能起到好榜樣的作用。
6model of efficiency/virtue etcsomeone or something that has a lot of a good quality 效率/美德等的典範
She was a model of honesty and decency.
她是誠實和正派的典範。
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model of efficiency/virtue etc• Mr. Howard I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is citing Lambeth council as a model of efficiency and good practice.• The police, when they arrived, were models of efficiency and solicitude.
7.art 藝術AVBO someone who is employed by an artist or photographer to be painted or photographed 〔繪畫或攝影的〕模特
latest model• No sooner does the latest model take its place in the market, than it is superseded by another development.• It was a happydebut for the latest model to drop off the fast-bowling conveyorbelt.• Remember, you can at any time exchange our equipment for the latest models as soon as they become available.• For on the latest models, try the computer press and like Stuff and T3.• The latest model of the minivan went into production last year.• The latest model on the market.• So what is this latest model?
role model• Banneker can be a role model for them.• At my age I should probably be a role model to a few others.• He is a role model of a gentleman and of how contentment can be found in being a gentleman.• Brando's a role model for everybody in the business.• But most men do not choose their fathers as role models as they move away from their families and into the world.• Fonda, Hopper and especially Nicholson were used as role models for many futurefilms, and thus it broke new ground.• He's a wonderfully kind man and an excellentrole model for the children.• Our new role model, Hildamay, isn't selfish: more a regular girl guide.• There aren't enough positiverole models for young people today, especially for minority groups.• Mary Martin no doubt offered a strong role model.
ldoce_225_amodel2 ●●○adjectiveadj
1model aircraft/train/car etcDHTCOPYa small copy of an aircraft, train etc, especially one that a child can play with or put together from separate parts 〔尤指兒童可以玩或拼裝的〕飛機/火車/汽車等模型
He is playing with his model railway.
他在玩模型鐵軌。
She builds model aeroplanes in her spare time.
她在業餘時間制作飛機模型。
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model aircraft/train/car etc• Loafers that looked more like model cars.• A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internalcombustionengine in order to work as a toy!• The sum was raised at a model aircraftflyingdisplay that was all but washed out through appallingweather.• Corgi sent a full range of their model cars, including Rolls Royces and Porsches.• Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad's.• Some people like model trains or football.• Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.• I built model cars when I was younger.
2model wife/employee/student etcPERFECTa wife, employee (=worker) etc who is considered to be good because they do everything they should 模範妻子/僱員/學生等SYN exemplary
His lawyers tried to show him as a model husband and father.
他的律師們竭力想證明他是一位模範丈夫和模範父親。
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model wife/employee/student etc• Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.• First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.• Two other girls were model students.• In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.• Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.• How is that model employee of yours?• He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.• Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadlyweapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
3.model prison/farm/school etcBESTa prison etc that has been specially designed or organized to be as good as possible 模範監獄/農場/學校等
1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]DCBBM to wear clothes at a fashion show or in magazine photographs in order to show them to people 當模特;作爲模特向顧客展示〔服裝〕
She’s modeling Donna Karan’s fall collection.
她在爲唐娜•凱蘭的秋裝系列當模特。
Claire modelled for a few years when she was in her twenties.
克萊爾在二十幾歲時做過幾年模特。
2model yourself on somebodyBritish EnglishBrE, model yourself after somebody American EnglishIMITATE to try to be like someone else because you admire them 以某人爲榜樣
Jim had always modelled himself on his great hero, Martin Luther King.
吉姆總是以他心目中的大英雄馬丁•路德•金爲榜樣。
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model yourself on somebody• Thomas Becket modelled himself on Anselm - in his exile, his inflexibility, his austerities.• Dean was another rebel, no doubt modelling himself on his two idols.• As we grow up we model ourselves on our parents, identifying with them and imitating them.• If the C of Emodels itself onParliament, the Methodists model themselves on a school prize-giving.• A number had decided to model themselves on the behaviors and demeanor of a favoriteboss or company hero-a very reasonablestrategy.• Plenty of singers, wisely or otherwise, have modelled themselves on the heroes and villains of great literature.• For men to model themselves on Ulysses rather than Hercules.• Nobody's modelled themselves on us, they've gone more the Roses and the Mondays.
3be modelled on somethingCOPYto be designed in a way that copies another system or way of doing something 模仿[效仿,仿制]某事物
Their education system is modelled on the French one.
4[transitiveT]TICCOPY to do a computer representation or scientific description of a situation or event 〔用計算機〕做出〔情景、事件〕的模型
They used a computer to model the possible effects of global warming.
他們用計算機來模拟全球變暖可能造成的影響。
5.[transitiveT] to make something by shapingclay, wood etc 用〔黏土或木頭等材料〕塑造
—modeller noun [countableC]
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model• Most of the decor in this part of the house was modelled after Hollywood's idea of elaborate period furnishings.• Here we have a Kenar T-shirtmodeled by Linda Evangelista.• All the tee-shirts were modelled by the pupils during the school's fashion show organised by the Parent TeachersAssociation.• She made a living modeling for art classes.• I modelled them on the shape of your abdomen when you strode out of the sea last month.• She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay.
From Longman Business Dictionary
modelmod·el /ˈmɒdlˈmɑːdl/ noun
1[countableC] a particular type or design of a vehicle or machine