systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
a standard or typical example;
"he is the prototype of good breeding" "he provided America with an image of the good father"
the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time;
"he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
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There's no paradigm to follow in this new industry.在这个崭新的行业里没有范例可做参考。
No prevailing paradigm in science lasts forever.科学中没有任何流行范式能够存在永远。
We now see paradigms and paradigm overthrows everywhere, inside of science and out.我们现在可以随处看到典范和推翻典范的事例，无论在科学还是其他方面。
The Aristotelian paradigm prefers the frog perspective, whereas the Platonic paradigm prefers the bird perspective.亚里士多德的典范偏向蛙的眼光，而柏拉图的典范偏向鸟的眼光。
