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

• I'm afraid Frederick is no paragon of discretion.
  很遗憾弗雷德里克并不是谨慎的模范。
• Man is the paragon of animals.
  人是动物中的模。
• Compared with our cousin, he was a paragon of honesty and uprightness.
  与我们的表兄比，他是诚实和正直的典范。
• 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。
• There is an angel in the cave, or if not, an earthly paragon.
  山洞里来了天使啦，要不然，也是世间少有的美少女。
• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.
  他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• 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。
• 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。
• To his boosters, Mr Spitzer is a paragon among prosecutors: diligent, imaginative and incorruptible.
  在斯皮策的拥护者看来，他是检察官中的典范&工作勤奋、富有想像力而且清廉。
• Nor can Tata be hailed as a financial paragon.
  塔塔也不能被誉为金融界的典范。