paragons

英 [ˈpærəgənz]

美 [ˈpɛrəˌgɑnz]

n.  完人; 典范
paragon的复数

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。

双语例句

• Companies obviously believe such paragons exist.
  企业显然认为，世上确实存在这样的理想人选。
• A higher proportion than ever of these paragons want to make their homes in the United States.
  这些人中想在美国定居的比例为历年之最。
• And who are the paragons who will run them?
  而谁又是经营这类机构的完美人选呢？
• We expect top athletes to be moral paragons.
  我们期望第一流的运动员都是道德高尚的楷模。
• Compared to this angry, blaming American stance, the Chinese were paragons of compromise, finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the middle.
  对比这次冲突，指责美国的姿态，赞赏中国的妥协的模范，同时找出双方的错误并且寻找使双方互相折中的解决途径。
• We adults are no paragons of virtue.
  我们成年人决不是美德的典范。
• I should believe women are amazing and we all support each other without question. We are paragons of virtue, models of kindness.
  我应该相信，女性都很了不起，总是无条件地支持彼此；我们是道德典范、善心大使。
• Mary was always holding up her children as paragons of good behaviour.
  玛丽老是标榜自己的孩子是品行端正的典范。
• Unfortunately we can't expect all policemen to be paragons of virtue.
  不幸的是，我们不能期望所有的警察都十全十美。
• The public sector and large bureaucratic organisations appear as paragons of good decision making process and exemplars of bad decisions.
  公共部门和大型官僚机构往往有好的决策机制，却做不出好的决策。