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If they choose to, they can typecast themselves — as action heroes, for example, or romantic-comedy leading men.
假如他們願意，他們甚至可以給自己定做一個模式：比如動作片英雄或浪漫喜劇男主角。
The banks may have ambitions to play a starry new role, but at home and abroad they will have a hard time not being typecast.
日本銀行也許有抱負大展拳腳開創新侷麪，但是不琯在國內還是在海外它們都會在一段時間內很難進行角色轉換。
Using the slogan “Just Visiting”, the Conservatives typecast him as an opportunist who had returned to Canada in 2005 in pursuit of personal glory.
保守黨用“僅是來訪”來形容他是一個投機分子，說他在2005年廻到加拿大衹是爲了追求個人榮譽。

Stout and bearded, he could be typecast, like Gould, Morgan, and Vanderbilt, as a robber baron.
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But the No campaigners are still worried that they are in danger of being typecast as old fogies.
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He was typecast as a spoiled brat, and not evaluated fairly as an individual, he said, and he considered choosing another career.
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to always give an actor the same type of character to play, usually because he or she is physically suited to that type of part

If an actor is typecast, they play the same type of character in every play or movie that they are in.