mindmap root((PROT/PROTO)) protagonist The main character in a literary work.
🌱Macbeth is the ruthlessly ambitious protagonist of Shakespeare's play, but it is his wife who pulls the strings. 🌳Struggle, or conflict, is central to drama. The protagonist or hero of a play, novel, or film is involved in a struggle of some kind, either against someone or something else or even against his or her own emotions. So the hero is the "first struggler," which is the literal meaning of the Greek word pr tag nist s.A character who opposes the hero is the antagonist, from a Greek verb that means literally "to struggle against." protocol 1、 A code of diplomatic or military rules of behavior.
2、 A set of rules for the formatting of data in an electronic communications system.
🌱The guests at the governor's dinner were introduced and seated according to the strict protocol governing such occasions. 🌳The basic meaning of proto- is a little harder to follow in this word. Protocol comes from a Greek word for the first sheet of a papyrus roll. In English, protocol originally meant "a first draft or record," and later specifically the first draft of a diplomatic document, such as a treaty. The "diplomatic" connection led eventually to its current meaning of "rules of behavior." Someone wearing Bermuda shorts and sandals to a state dinner at the White House would not be acting "according to protocol," and royal protocol forbids touching the queen of England except to shake her hand. But protocol is also now used for other sets of rules, such as those for doing a scientific experiment or for handling computer data. protoplasm The substance that makes up the living parts of cells.
🌱A mixture of organic and inorganic substances, such as protein and water, protoplasm is regarded as the physical basis of life. 🌳After the word protoplasm was coined in the mid-19th century for the jellylike material that is the main substance of a cell, it began to be used widely, especially by scientists and others who imagined that the first life-forms must have arisen out of a great seething protoplasmic soup. Since protoplasm includes all the cell's living material, inside and outside the nucleus, it is a less useful scientific word today than more precise terms such as cytoplasm, which refers only to the living material outside the nucleus. But many remain fascinated by the image of that soup bubbling away as the lightning flashes and the volcanoes erupt. prototype 1、 An original model on which something is patterned.
2、 A first, full-scale, usually working version of a new type or design.
🌱There was great excitement when, after years of top-secret development, the prototype of the new Stealth bomber first took to the skies. 🌳A prototype is someone or something that serves as a model or inspiration. A successful fund-raising campaign can serve as a prototype for future campaigns, for example, and the legendary Robin Hood is the prototypical honorable outlaw, the inspiration for countless other romantic heroes. But the term is perhaps most widely used in the world of technology; every new "concept car," for example, starts off as a unique prototype.