自现象级英语
ICONIC
1. 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。
During his career spanning nearly 40 years, Tom Cruise has acted many iconic roles.
During his nearly four-decade career, Tom Cruise has played many iconic roles.
Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Tom Cruise has played many iconic characters.
造句：
例1：Superman is an iconic character who wears his red underwear on the outside. 超人是红内裤外穿的偶像
例2：The crystal ball drop in Times Square has become a iconic symbol of New Year's Eve for New York City. 水晶球在时代广场降落是纽约市新年夜的象征
例3：Eyeliner is iconic. It is the one product that marks out “little fresh meat”--young good-looking male celebrities, and defines fashion.眼线魔力足，画出小鲜肉，定义新时尚。
个人拓展：
释义：symbolic, representative; widely recognized, well-established
The original meaning of iconic was essentially "resembling an icon", but today it more often seems to mean "so admired that it could be the subject of an icon". And with that meaning, iconic has become part of the language of advertising and publicity; today companies and magazines and TV hosts are constantly encouraging us to think of some consumer item or pop star or show as first-rate or immortal or flawless—absolutely "iconic"—when he or she or it is actually nothing of the kind. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
搭配：iconic status/ entrepreneur/ businessmen/ covers/ brand/ images/ gesture/ character/ symbol
背诵：
iconic, important, famous, impressive
The iconic Statue of Liberty is a symbol of freedom.
A gun is considered an iconic symbol of violence.
