原型用英语怎么说

proterotype

用base的：The journalist asked the author who the characters in his works(literature) were based on .不用base的：The journalist asked the author(writer) who were the origin(prototype) of the characters .LZ没有说明时态，所以就都按过去时翻译了./另：journalist 指的是记者（比reporter要专业点），literature本意有文学作品的意思，因为考虑到是作家，与文学有关而用，the origin of 这个词组是特指 以……为原型（prototype本意指原型）/LZ可根据需求对（）中的单词作选取使用 .