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/ˈperədaɪm/ · /ˈpærədaɪm/
A paradigm is a whole way of thinking about something - a model, a pattern, or a set of assumptions that people use as their starting point. When someone talks about a 'paradigm shift', they mean a big change in how everyone in a field thinks, not just one small fact changing. This is a somewhat academic, serious word - you'll meet it in science, business, and education writing more than in daily conversation. It is also a hard word for to pronounce, because the middle 'g' is silent.
典範、思考模式
複數 paradigms
組成It comes from a Greek word meaning 'pattern' or 'example', built from 'para-' (beside) and a root meaning 'to show'.
原始詞典資料3 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。
paradigmnoun/ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/
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A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
- Near-synonyms: style, model, worldview
- Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.
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An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group.
- Near-synonyms: template, exemplar, archetype, poster child; see also Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
- According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
- The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.
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。