名詞 epitome:

1. a standard or typical example
   同義詞：prototype, paradigm, image
2. a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

1. He is the epitome of diligence.
   他是勤勉的典型。
2. He is a vast library in epitome.
   他腦中有萬(wàn)卷藏書(shū)。

e.pit.o.me

n.（名詞）
A representative or an example of a class or type:
典型：一類(lèi)或一群的代表或范例：
例句：
.He is seen . . . as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual.(Paul Kennedy)
.他被看作是鷹派的自我為中心的知識(shí)分子的典型.(保羅·肯尼迪)

A brief summary, as of a book or an article; an abstract.
梗概：一本書(shū)或一篇文章的大致總結(jié)；摘要

來(lái)源：
Latin epitomô [a summary]
拉丁語(yǔ) epitomô [總結(jié)]
from Greek [an abridgment]
源自 希臘語(yǔ) [縮寫(xiě)本]
from epitemnein [to cut short]
源自 epitemnein [縮短]
epi- [epi-]
epi- [前綴，表.在…前.]
temnein [to cut] * see tem-
temnein [切] *參見(jiàn) tem-