model /ˈmɒdəl/ CET4 TEM4 ( modelling, modelled, models )

AM modeling, modeled

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A model of an object is a physical representation that shows what it looks like or how it works. The model is often smaller than the object it represents. 模型

  例：

  ...an architect's model of a wooden house.

  …一名建筑师的木屋模型。

  例：

  I made a model out of paper and glue.

  我用纸和胶水做了一个模型。

• 2. 

  ADJ Model is also an adjective. 模型的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  ...a model railway.

  …一个铁路模型。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT A model is a system that is being used and that people might want to copy in order to achieve similar results. 模式 [正式]

  例：

  ...the Chinese model of economic reform.

  …中国经济改革的模式。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT A model of a system or process is a theoretical description that can help you understand how the system or process works, or how it might work. 理论模式 [正式]

  例：

  Darwin eventually put forward a model of biological evolution.

  达尔文最终提出了一套生物进化的理论模式。

• 5. 

  V-T If someone such as a scientist models a system or process, they make an accurate theoretical description of it in order to understand or explain how it works. 建立…的理论模式 [正式]

  例：

  I have moved from trying to model and understand the distribution and evolution of water vapour.

  我已经不再试图构建和理解水汽的分布和演变的理论模式了。

• 6. 

  N-COUNT If you say that someone or something is a model of a particular quality, you are showing approval of them because they have that quality to a large degree. 典范 [表赞许]

  例：

  A model of good manners, he has conquered any inward fury.

  作为礼貌行为的典范，他已经克服了内心的狂怒情绪。

• 7. 

  ADJ You use model to express approval of someone when you think that they perform their role or duties extremely well. 模范的 [ADJ n] [表赞许]

  例：

  As a girl she had been a model student.

  还是女孩的时候她一直是模范学生。

• 8. 

  V-T If one thing is modelled on another, the first thing is made so that it is like the second thing in some way. 使仿造

  例：

  The quota system was modelled on those operated in America and continental Europe.

  配额制是仿照美国和欧洲大陆所施行的那些制度制定出来的。

• 9. 

  V-T If you model yourself on someone, you copy the way that they do things, because you admire them and want to be like them. 以…为榜样

  例：

  You have been modelling yourself on others all your life.

  你一辈子都在以别人为榜样。

• 10. 

  N-COUNT A particular model of a machine is a particular version of it. 型号

  例：

  To keep the cost down, opt for a basic model.

  为了降低成本，就选择一个基本型号吧。

• 11. 

  N-COUNT An artist's model is a person who stays still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them. (艺术家据以绘画或雕塑的) 模特儿

  例：

  ...the model for his portrait of Mary Magdalene, the Marchesa Attavanti.

  …他绘制玛丽·马格达莱妮，即阿塔凡蒂侯爵夫人肖像画的模特儿。

• 12. 

  V-I If someone models for an artist, they stay still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them. 当模特儿

  例：

  Tullio has been modelling for Sandra for eleven years.

  图利奥已经为桑德拉当了11年的模特儿。

• 13. 

  N-COUNT A fashion model is a person whose job is to display clothes by wearing them. (时装) 模特儿

  例：

  ...Paris's top fashion model.

  …巴黎的顶级时装模特儿。

• 14. 

  V-T/V-I If someone models clothes, they display them by wearing them. 当模特儿展示 (服装); 当时装模特儿

  例：

  She began modelling in Paris at age 15.

  她15岁就开始在巴黎当时装模特儿。

• 15. 

  modelling N-UNCOUNT 当模特儿

  例：

  She was being offered a modelling contract.

  她得到一份当模特儿的合同。

• 16. 

  V-T/V-I If you model shapes or figures, you make them out of a substance such as clay or wood. (用黏土或木头等) 塑造; 做模型

  例：

  There she began to model in clay.

  她开始在那儿用黏土做模型。

• 17. 

  → see also role model