a design plan or other technical drawing 蓝图,设计图 ■(figurative)something which acts as a plan, model, or template (喻)规划,蓝图,模型,模版 the scheme was a blueprint for future development programmes. 那个方案是将来开发项目的蓝图。
verb
[with obj.](N. Amer.)draw up (a plan or model) (北美)起草(计划),设计(模型) [as adj. blueprinted]a neatly blueprinted scheme. 设计巧妙的方案。
语源
late 19th cent.: from the original process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground