2019-01-18 iconic

1. 这是什么词？

词：iconic

英英释义：very famous and well known, and believed to represent a particular idea

例句：Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman.

2. 为什么选这个词？

我们都很熟悉名词“icon”，常用来表示“图标”，也可以表示“偶像” “代表人物”。今天我们学习它的形容词形式 iconic，意思是“偶像的”“标志性的”。在一些语境下它可以用来替换 important，famous，impressive 等词。

iconic 可以形容物也可以形容人。比如：

Nike/Starbucks/Coca-Cola/Tesla is an iconic brand.

Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman.

《经济学人》在创刊 175 周年之际出版了第一本明信片书 Cover Story: A History in 100 Postcards，把 100 张精选的往期经典封面做成了明信片。官网上是这样介绍这本书的：

Cover Story is a postcard collection celebrating 175 years of iconic covers from The Economist.

《经济学人》在提到著名建筑“鸟巢”时用的就是 iconic：

Mr Zhong is a “grid manager” operating in part of Huayan Beili Xi Community, a middle-class residential area near the capital’s iconic “bird’s nest” Olympic stadium.

3. 怎样学会使用这个词？

1）翻译下面的句子：

在阿汤哥（Tome Cruise）近 40 年的职业生涯中，他扮演过许多经典角色。

Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Tom Cruise has played many iconic characters.

（参考翻译：Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Tom Cruise has played many iconic characters.)

2）结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等，想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景，再造句。

例子： 中东

场景 ：At 29, Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is the art world’s most powerful woman. The starkly beautiful Museum of Islamic Art(MIA) in Doha, Qatar, is a fine setting for a dinner.Several month ago 200 dealers, collectors and curators gathered there for the opening of the first showing in the Middle East of work by Takashi Murakami.The hostess of the evening sat laughing with the pony-tailed Japanese artist on her right. On her left was Dakis Joannou, a Greek-Cypiriot industrialist and avid collector of the work of Jeff Konns, an American sculptor. Larry Gagosian,whom many regard as the most powerful art dealer in the world, was placed at a table nearby, with the other art dealers. Few people could get away with asking Mr Gagosian to dinner halfway around the globe, only to sit him with the restof the class. Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is one. The emir of Qatar’s daughter is one of the iconic figures of the international art world: collector, patron,cultural advocate.