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

• Man is the paragon of animals.
  人是动物中的模。
• My daughter is a paragon of good behaviour.
  我女儿是良好行为的典范。
• It may be that, so placed, you being the noble-minded Paragon that you are would behave unselfishly.
  也许，你是品德高尚的杰出人物，即使得到了那种位置，你会表现得毫不自私。
• 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。
• Master has set an excellent paragon for us in giving unconditional love to all beings in the universe.
  师父已为我们树立了一个对所有众生付出无条件爱心的完美典范。
• He was not a paragon. He would never be perfect.
  他不是完人，永远不可能十全十美。
• 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。
• Paragon he is a paragon of husband.
  他是个模范丈夫。
• 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。
• 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。