n.

1. 原型
   Oedipus Rex is considered as the archetype of tragedy in Western literature.

   在西方文學中，「伊迪帕斯王」被認為是悲戲的原型。

n.

1. a very typical example.
2. an original model.
3. Psychoanalysis  (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
4. a recurrent motif in literature or art.