字典解释

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。

例句

iconic 可以形容人也可以形容事物
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。官网上对于这本书的介绍：
Cover story is a postcard collection celebrating 175 years of iconic covers from The Economist.
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《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.

翻译练习

在阿汤哥（Tom Cruise）近40年的职业生涯中，他扮演过许多经典角色。
During the 40 years’ professional career of Tom Cruise. He act as many iconic characters.

参考翻译
Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Ton Cruise has played many iconic characters.