stereotype
n[C]
1 image,idea, character, etc that has become fixed or standardizedin a conventional form without individuality (and is therefore perhaps false) 模式化的形象、 思想、 人物等; 老一套
He doesn´t conform to the usual stereotype of the city businessman with a dark suit and rolled umbrella. 他不像典型的城市商人那样, 穿一身深色的套服、 带一把收好的雨伞.
[attrib 作定语]
a play full of stereotype characters 充斥著公式化人物的话剧.
2 printing-plate made from a mould of a set piece of movable printing type 铅版.