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stereotype

/ster-ee-uh-tahyp, steer-/US // ˈstɛr i əˌtaɪp, ˈstɪər- //UK // (ˈstɛrɪəˌtaɪp, ˈstɪər-) //

刻板印象,定型,陈规定型,刻板形象

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n.名词 noun
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    • : a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: Cowboys and Indians are American stereotypes.
    • : a set form; convention: Most important for lexicographers are the idiomatic stereotypes whose meaning cannot be inferred from knowledge of the meanings of the individual items.
    • : Printing. a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.a plate made by this process.
v.有主动词 verb
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    ster·e·o·typed, ster·e·o·typ·ing.

    • : to characterize or regard as a stereotype: The actor has been stereotyped as a villain.
    • : to give a fixed form to.
    • : Printing. to make a stereotype of.

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Examples

  • Unlike the Tibetans or Muslim Uyghurs of its far west, China’s ethnic Mongol population has long been seen as pacified, content, and well-assimilated, fulfilling the stereotype of a “model minority” in a country bubbling with ethnic tensions.

  • It is imperative that we continue to battle the stereotypes and prejudices that prevent too many of us from making our best and highest contribution to our Republic.

  • Some workers were more likely to worry about stereotypes than others, whether because of their own innate fears or the actual prevalence of these attitudes in their work environments.

  • Science News has a long history covering race in America, including research on stereotypes and stigma, racial bias in research funding, and how the lack of diverse representation in clinical trials risks lives.

  • Many of these biases arise out of stereotypes — simplified beliefs that may not be true.

  • Give this gorgeous book to that friend who fits the stereotype.

  • A judge ruled that Black Piet indeed is a negative stereotype that infringes on the rights of black people in The Netherlands.

  • But it often feels more like something from a Japanese stereotype than anything explicitly offensive.

  • Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.

  • So why is that such a lingering stereotype in the way pop culture represents Hollywood?

  • To look back, and to stereotype one bygone humour—what a hopeless thing!

  • The new edition, being printed from entirely new stereotype plates, is a great improvement upon former editions.

  • A new edition, brought down to the Present Time, and printed from entirely new stereotype plates.

  • This formed the matrix into which the molten metal was poured to make the stereotype plate, or die, for printing.

  • But that must be as it may; and if you think the acceptance dubious, it is much the better plan not to stereotype.