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epitome

/ih-pit-uh-mee/US // ɪˈpɪt ə mi //UK // (ɪˈpɪtəmɪ) //

缩影,表征,缩略语,外显子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness.
    • : a condensed account, especially of a literary work; abstract.

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Examples

  • Maurice “Rocket” Richard was the best hockey player on the planet then — the epitome of a goal scorer8 — but he was also a bit of a cheap-shot artist.

  • Then there’s Elizabeth — who is chocolate brown and described as “the epitome of decorum and grace.”

  • Bezos has become a subject of public fascination and, on the left, public ire as an epitome of America’s billionaire class, especially since rising to the No.

  • The resume of Atlanta’s Younghoe Koo is the epitome of a winding NFL kicking career.

  • The house meal, then, is the epitome of comfort food —not in the broad sense, but when and how it actually matters.

  • It was the epitome of Kim Kardashian, and a fitting summation of the Year of Butt.

  • He really is the epitome of the cliché “women want him and men want to be him.”

  • All in all, Bates strikes me as a good upstanding Englishman—the epitome of stiff-upper-lip resolve and restraint.

  • Tanny came to be known as the epitome of a Balanchine dancer, with her long legs and graceful, fluid lines.

  • They are the epitome of old-school rationality and refinement—or at least they were until now.

  • To this end they spread a distorted epitome of his favourite views, amongst their retainers.

  • We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century.

  • Chaucer refers us to Aleyn's description on account of its unmerciful length; it was hopeless to attempt even an epitome of it.

  • Your average woman shopping is the epitome of irresolution, or so it seems to the man.

  • The Epitome of Gemistus Pletho, referred to above, is of great value, and held in the highest estimation by all editors.