| 词汇 | pattern |
| 释义 | phrasepattern[patterned, patterned, patterning] pattern after/on pattern after/on sth usually passive to design or make something in a way that is copied from something else: The new health care plan is patterned on the Medicare program. Hilger's films have been patterned after her own life experiences.■ SIMILAR TO: model on/upon, base on in a holding pattern1. Literally, of an aircraft, in a continuous, generally circular flight pattern over an airport, as while awaiting clearance to land. Due to a security breach in the airport, our plane was kept in a holding pattern for nearly 45 minutes. 2. In a state or condition of inactivity or stagnancy, leading to little or no change, advancement, or development. Relying solely on derivative sequels, many feel that the video game company has been in a holding pattern in recent years. holding pattern1. Literally, of an aircraft, a continuous, generally circular flight pattern over an airport, as while awaiting clearance to land. Due to a security breach in the airport, our plane was kept in a holding pattern for nearly 45 minutes. 2. A state or condition of inactivity or stagnancy, leading to little or no change, advancement, or development. Relying solely on derivative sequels, many feel that the video game company has been in a holding pattern in recent years pattern (something) on (something else)To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is patterned after a similar system already in place in Sweden. You can pattern your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers. pattern (something) after (something else)To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is patterned after a similar system already in place in Sweden. You can pattern your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers. pattern something after somethingto use something as an example or model when making something. I patterned my house after one I saw in England. She wanted to pattern her coat after her mother's. pattern something on somethingto use something as a model for something else. Try to pattern your sales speech on Jane's. She's got it just right. We patterned our approach on Bob's. pattern onor pattern afterv. To form, develop, or found something on the basis of something else; fashion something after something else: The country patterned its legal system on French civil law. These lesson plans are patterned after the ones I learned at graduate school. |
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