能代表整體的典型
同一個「一個站在許多的位置上」，只是這裡站出來的不是人，而是特徵：一個東西夠典型，看它就等於看整群。從「替眾人現身」延伸到「能把整群的樣子擺到你眼前」。
typical · adjective · B2
Typical of a particular group, type, or thing.
有代表性的／典型的
核心畫面
You can picture a 'representative' as one who is put in front to stand for others — presenting the group again through a single person or thing. Whether it's a person speaking for a crowd or a sample that shows the whole, the picture is the same: this one stands in place of the many.
可以把 representative 想成「被推到前面、替一群人現身」的那個——透過單一的人或物，把整群再擺到眼前。…更多收起
可以把 representative 想成「被推到前面、替一群人現身」的那個——透過單一的人或物，把整群再擺到眼前。不管是一個人替眾人發言，還是一份樣本代表整體，畫面都一樣：這一個，站在那許多的位置上。From the word’s history
From Latin repraesentare 'to make present, set in view, show', from re- + praesentare 'to present, place before'. To represent is to make a group present again through a stand-in — the exact idea behind both the delegate and the 'typical of the whole' senses.
來自拉丁文 repraesentare（使再度出現、擺到眼前、展示），由 re- 加 praesentare（呈現、擺到面前）組成。represent 就是「透過一個替身，把某群人事再擺到眼前」——這正好同時撐起「代表某群人的人」和「能代表整體的典型」兩層意思。
etymonline.com/word/represent, etymonline.com/word/representative (Online Etymology Dictionary)
From the picture
Also in this word
representative, spokesperson · noun · B2
Someone chosen to speak, vote, or make decisions for other people.
代表
member of the House of Representatives · noun · B2
A member of the House of Representatives, one of the two parts of the United States Congress.
眾議員
representative system of government · adjective · B2
Describing a system of government where people vote for others to represent them and make decisions.
代議的
原始詞典資料12 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。
representativeadj/ˌɹɛpɹɪˈzɛnt(ət)ɪv/
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Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
- THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. By O. S. Nock. Blandford Press. 18s. Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives from Locomotion to BR's Evening Star was broached to him.
- If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore.
- 2
Representing, showing a likeness.
- Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?
- the representative faculty of the human imagination
representativenoun/ˌɹɛpɹɪˈzɛnt(ət)ɪv/
- 1
A delegate.
- She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.
- Each vessel in the Fleet has the right to send representatives to the Conclave aboard the flagship. The number of representatives is based on crew size. Larger clans, with bigger ships and more votes, form the cores of political blocs. Opposition comes from the Outriders' Coalition, with delegates from thousands of smaller ships.
- 2
A delegate.
- I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.
- 3
lawA delegate.
- This pathetic remonstrance had the desired effect upon his representative, who spared no pains to fulfill the request of the deceased […].
- 4
governmentpoliticsA delegate.
- All representatives face re-election every two years.
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A delegate.
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Something standing for something else.
- The furniture was the same when she married..[ ]..The only representatives of to-day, were two large and comfortable arm-chairs, and a few elegant-looking trifles, the work of the Misses Granard.
- […] whereas a tiny group with no roots in the working class was entitled, so long as it professed the Marxist ideology, to declare itself the sole representative of the proletariat and the sole embodiment of proletarian consciousness.
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Something standing for something else.
- The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.
- 8
Something standing for something else.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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mathematicssciencesSomething standing for something else.
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Something standing for something else.
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。