paragon

英 [ˈpærəɡən]

美 [ˈpærəɡɑːn]

n.  完人; 典范

复数：paragons　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.18984 / COCA.19134

牛津词典

noun

• 完人；典范
  a person who is perfect or who is a perfect example of a particular good quality
  1. I make no claim to be a paragon.
     我没有说过自己是完人。
  2. He wasn't the paragon of virtue she had expected.
     他不是她想象中的那种美德典范。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 杰出典范；尽善尽美的人；完人
  If you refer to someone as aparagon, you mean that they are perfect or have a lot of a good quality.
  1. We don't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue.
     我们不指望候选人在道德上尽善尽美。
  2. ...a paragon of neatness, efficiency and reliability...
     整洁、高效和可靠的典范
  3. He was not a paragon. He would never be perfect.
     他不是完人，永远不可能十全十美。

英英释义

noun

• an ideal instance
  Synonym:idolperfectionbeau ideal
• model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  Synonym:idealnonpareilsaintapotheosisnonesuchnonsuch

双语例句

• A person or thing beyond comparison, a model of excellence, is known as a paragon.
  一个人或物是无与伦比的，即优秀的典范，这不就是“模范、优秀的人或物”吗？很明显“beknownas”前面的主语给出了后面“paragon”的词义。
• Current young adults have grown up hearing about Mark Zuckerberg ( Facebook) as the paragon of success.
  现在的年轻人听着马克•扎克伯格的故事长大，他被视为成功的典范。
• My daughter is a paragon of good behaviour.
  我女儿是良好行为的典范。
• She is a paragon of virtue.
  她是美德的典范。
• We don't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue.
  我们不指望候选人在道德上尽善尽美。
• And who is this paragon of musical sagacity?
  这个对音乐如此敏锐的人是谁？
• Besides, this time I've another inducement, as I want to see this fair-haired paragon, my new aunt.
  此外，这一回，对我还另有个引诱力，我要去见见这位美发典范，我的新伯母。
• City community sports creates a new paragon of society sports by its flexibility and varieties which enriches the culture life and improves people's life quality.
  城市社区体育以其灵活性、多样性的特点开创了社会体育的新模式，在丰富人民文化生活、提高人民生活水平上发挥了重要的作用。
• The impact is worse, she says, because of France's role as the "paragon" of liberty, equality and fraternity.
  她还说，因为法国一直是自由、平等、博爱的“楷模”，因此此次事件的影响更坏了。
• New York is the paragon of racial concord.
  纽约是种族和谐的典范。