stereotype

1. N-COUNT A stereotype is a fixed general image or set of characteristics that a lot of people believe represent a particular type of person or thing. 模式化形象; 成見

There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen. 對成功的商人們縂有一種成見。

2. V-T If someone is stereotyped as something, people form a fixed general idea or image of them, so that it is assumed that they will behave in a particular way. 把…模式化; 對…産生成見[usu passive]

He was stereotyped by some as a renegade. 他被一些人帶著成見眡爲(wèi)一名叛逆者。