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epitome    音标拼音: [ɪp'ɪtəmi]
n. 概要,缩影,概括

概要,缩影,概括

epitome
n 1: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good
breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good
father" [synonym: {prototype}, {paradigm}, {epitome}, {image}]
2: a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

Epitome \E*pit"o*me\, n.; pl. {Epitomes}. [L., fr. Gr. ? a
surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. ? to cut into,
cut short; 'epi` upon te`mnein to cut: cf. F. ['e]pitome.
See {Tome}.]
1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced
within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a
brief summary; an abridgement.
[1913 Webster]

[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
--Sydney
Smith.
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2. A compact or condensed representation of anything;
something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the
qualities of a class.
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An epitome of English fashionable life. --Carlyle.
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A man so various that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome. --Dryden.

Syn: Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis;
abbreviature. See {Abridgment}.
[1913 Webster]

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "epitome":
abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridgement, abridgment,
abstract, antetype, antitype, apocope, archetype, biotype,
breviary, brief, capsule, classic example, compend, compendium,
compression, condensation, condensed version, conspectus,
contraction, criterion, curtailment, digest, draft, elision,
ellipsis, embodiment, essence, exemplar, foreshortening, fugleman,
fugler, genotype, head, imitatee, last word, lead, mirror, model,
original, outline, overview, pandect, paradigm, pattern,
personification, precedent, precis, prototype, quintessence, recap,
recapitulation, reduction, representative, resume, retrenchment,
review, rubric, rule, shortened version, shortening, skeleton,
sketch, standard, sum, summary, summation, summing-up, survey,
syllabus, syncope, synopsis, telescoping, thumbnail sketch,
topical outline, truncation, type, type species, type specimen,
typical example, ultimate, urtext


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