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- a first or preliminary model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied（尤指机器的）原型; 样机, 样本：
the firm is testing a prototype of the weapon.
该公司正在测试这种武器的一种原型。
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- a typical example of something模范, 典型：
he was married to the prototype of an ideal parson's wife.
他娶了个理想的典型堂区牧师妻子。
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- the archetypal example of a class of living organisms, astronomical objects, or other items（生物、天体等的）原始型：
these objects are the prototypes of a category of rapidly spinning neutron stars.
这些天体是一类旋转极快的中子星的原始型。
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- a building, vehicle, or other object which acts as a pattern for a full-scale model（建筑, 汽车等的）全真模型。
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- Electronics a basic filter network with specified cut-off frequencies, from which other networks may be derived to obtain sharper cut-offs, constancy of characteristic impedance with frequency, etc.【电子】原型滤波网络。
派生词
prototypal
adjectiveprototypic
adjectiveprototypical
adjectiveprototypically
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