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An archetype is a perfect example of a type of thing — the example that seems to have all the important pieces of that type. A film detective in a long coat who notices one small clue may be called an archetype of the old-style detective: not just one detective, but the picture of that kind.
An archetype is a perfect example of a type of thingArchetype是某種類型的完美範例——the example that seems to have all the important pieces of that type那種看起來擁有那個類型所有重要元素的範例。A film detective in a long coat who notices one small clue may be called an archetype of the old-style detective一個穿長大衣、注意到一個小線索的電影偵探，可能會被稱為老派偵探的archetype：not just one detective, but the picture of that kind不只是一個偵探，而是那一整類的畫面。
Though actually, the older and more careful meaning is a little different. An archetype is the first model, the original pattern that later copies follow. In stories, the Hero who leaves home, the who breaks rules, the Wise , keep turning up; people call those deep patterns archetypes.
Though actually, the older and more careful meaning is a little different不過其實比較古老、比較嚴謹的意思有點不一樣。An archetype is the first model, the original pattern that later copies followArchetype是最初的模型，是後來的複製品都依循的原始模式。In stories, the Hero who leaves home, the Trickster who breaks rules, the Wise Helper, keep turning up在故事裡，離家的英雄、打破規則的搗蛋鬼、智慧的助手，這些角色一直反覆出現；people call those deep patterns archetypes人們把那些深層的模式叫做archetypes。
It is a formal word. You meet it in essays, reviews, and serious talk more than in the playground.
It is a formal word這是一個正式的字。You meet it in essays, reviews, and serious talk more than in the playground你會在論文、評論和嚴肅的談話裡遇到它，比在操場上遇到的機會多得多。
People stretch it to mean only “very typical,” and they sometimes mix it with stereotype. A stereotype is a thin, often unfair picture of a group. An archetype is the classic or original pattern — though speakers do blur the two.
People stretch it to mean only "very typical,"人們有時候把它延伸來只講「非常典型」，and they sometimes mix it with stereotype也常常跟stereotype搞混。A stereotype is a thin, often unfair picture of a groupStereotype是一種對某個群體薄弱、常常不公平的印象。An archetype is the classic or original patternArchetype則是經典或最原始的模式——though speakers do blur the two不過使用者確實常常把這兩個字混在一起用。
組成From Ancient Greek arkhétupon, “first-moulded, original pattern”: arkhē (beginning, origin) + tupos (a blow, a stamp, a type). It passed through Latin archetypum and Old French into English.
同家族的字
- typefrom the same Greek tupos, a stamp or pattern
- typicalfrom that same Greek tupos
- prototypeproto- (first) plus the same “type/stamp” piece
- stereotypeshares the same Greek tupos
- archaicshares Greek arkhē, beginning / of the origin
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
archetypenoun/ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/
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An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.
- Near-synonym: prototype (sometimes synonymous)
- According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
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An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
- The Bishop [of Gloucester, William Warburton] asserts there is no Archetype, because eloquence is a variable thing, depending on custom and fashion; […] there is no Archetype in nature of perfect eloquence; its very constituent parts, as they are deemed, having no substance or reality in them.
- “New Kid On The Block” doubles as a terrific showcase for the Sea Captain who, in the grand tradition of Simpsons supporting characters, quickly goes from being a stereotype to an archetype, from being a crusty sea-captain character to the crusty sea-captain character.
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literaturemediapublishingA character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
- Archetypes are figures and creatures that inhabit the pools of the world's mythology, folk tales, epics, and ballads. […] Thus archetypes are universal essences that we all recognize: the Mother, the Lover, the Trickster, the Spiritual and Temporal Leader, the Devil.
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesAccording to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
- The three archetypes so far discussed—the shadow, the anima, and the wise old man—are of a kind that can be directly experienced in personified form. In the foregoing I tried to indicate the general psychological conditions in which such an experience arises. But what I conveyed were only abstract generalizations. One could, or rather should, really give a description of the process as it occurs in immediate experience. In the course of this process the archetypes appear as active personalities in dreams and fantasies.
- It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
- The outstanding importance of this manuscript for the text of Aeschylus has long been recognized. In the last century some scholars even persuaded themselves that it was the archetype of the whole extant tradition.
archetypeverb/ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/
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To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
- The whole issue of generalizing and overgeneralizing is always an issue. I use the term "archetyping." I say, "No, I am not stereotyping; I am archetyping." Stereotypes tend to be accusatory. I want to move the discussion away from a discussion of right and wrong to right and left—this is the way it is over here, and this is the way it is over there—and then look at the problems that develop as a result of each group interacting according to the standards of its own culture.
- These stereotypes of indigenous peoples implied obvious roles for the associated Europeans—heirs to the Dying, bleaching agents to the Whitening. But the interaction of conceptions of Us and Them went further, through archetyping and anti-typing. Maoris were sometimes archetyped or idealized, as with the Noble Savage and some Whitening Savages.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。