archetype
/ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/noun
1- a very typical example of a certain person or thing（一种人或物的）典型：
the book is a perfect archetype of the genre.
这本书是这类风格的完美典型。
1.1
- an original which has been imitated原型：
Marx gave us the archetype of the capitalist.
马克思向我们提供了资本家的典型原始形象。
1.2
- a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology（文学、艺术或神话中）反复出现的象征（或主题）：
mythological archetypes of good and evil.
关于善与恶的神话中反复出现的主题。
1.3
- Psychoanalysis (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious【精神分析】（荣格理论中的）原始意象, 原始型。
派生词
archetypical
adjective词源
mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon 'something moulded first as a model'， from arkhe- 'primitive' + tupos 'a model'.