model: [16] Latin modus meant originally ‘measure’ (it came from the same Indo- European base, *met-, *med-, as produced English measure and metre). It subsequently spread out semantically to ‘size’, ‘limit’, ‘way, method’, and ‘rhythm, harmony’. From it was derived the diminutive form modulus, source of English modulate [16], module [16], and mould ‘form’.
It was altered in Vulgar Latin to *modellus, and passed into English via Italian modello and early modern French modelle. Its original application in English was to an ‘a(chǎn)rchitect’s plans’, but the familiar modern sense ‘three-dimensional representation’ is recorded as early as the start of the 17th century. The notion of an ‘a(chǎn)rtist’s model’ emerged in the late 17th century, but a ‘model who shows off clothes’ is an early 20th-century development.
Other English descendants of modus include modern, modicum [15], modify [14], and of course mode [16] itself (of which mood ‘set of verb forms’ is an alteration). => measure, mete, metre, mode, modern, modulate, mood, mould
model (n.)
1570s, "likeness made to scale; architect's set of designs," from Middle French modelle (16c., Modern French modèle), from Italian modello "a model, mold," from Vulgar Latin *modellus, from Latin modulus "a small measure, standard," diminutive of modus "manner, measure" (see mode (n.1)).
Sense of "thing or person to be imitated" is 1630s. Meaning "motor vehicle of a particular design" is from 1900 (such as Model T, 1908; Ford's other early models included C, F, and B). Sense of "artist's model" is first recorded 1690s; that of "fashion model" is from 1904. German, Swedish modell, Dutch, Danish model are from French or Italian.
model (v.)
1660s, "fashion in clay or wax," from model (n.). Earlier was modelize (c. 1600). From 1915 in the sense "to act as a fashion model, to display (clothes)." Related: Modeled; modeling; modelled; modelling.
model (adj.)
1844, from model (n.).
雙語例句
1. He wants companies to follow the European model of social responsibility.
他希望各公司能夠以歐洲公司為榜樣，承擔(dān)社會(huì)責(zé)任。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The functionalist model of industrial society was subjected to conceptual criticism.
工業(yè)社會(huì)的實(shí)用主義模型在概念上遭到了批判。
來自柯林斯例句
3. This basic utilitarian model gives a relatively unsophisticated account of human behaviour.
這個(gè)實(shí)用的基礎(chǔ)模型較為簡略地解釋了人類的行為。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He is a model professional and an example to the younger lads.
他是個(gè)模范的專業(yè)人士，是年輕人的榜樣。
來自柯林斯例句
5. We believe that this is a general model of managerial activity.