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- a design plan or other technical drawing蓝图, 设计图。
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- figurative something which acts as a plan, model, or template〈喻〉规划, 蓝图; 模型, 模版：
the scheme was a blueprint for future development programmes.
那个方案是将来开发项目的蓝图。
with obj.
- N. Amer. draw up (a plan or model)〈北美〉起草（计划）; 设计（模型）：
as adj. blueprinted a neatly blueprinted scheme.设计巧妙的方案。
词源
late 19th cent.: from the original process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground.