Some of the car companies, like Cadillac, based their designs on airplanes.

有些汽车公司，如凯迪拉克，是以飞机为蓝本设计汽车的。

Mr. Michtom based the design on a famous cartoon he saw in the newspaper.

米希托姆先生的设计基于他在报纸上看到的著名漫画。

And they've patented this design based on the same manufacturing methods that are used to make microchips today.

他们已经根据当今用于制造微芯片的相同制造方法为该设计申请了专利。

Although Jules Verne based his design on scientific data, many people at the time thought such a vehicle could not be built.

尽管儒勒·凡尔纳的设计基于科学数据，但当时许多人认为这样的车辆无法制造。

And finally for important public buildings, the architect may also be looking for a central symbolic idea on which to base the design, a sort of metaphor for the building and the way in which it is used.

最后一点，对于很重要的公共建筑，建筑师也许还要寻找一个代表性的中心思想，以此作为设计的基础，有点像这栋建筑和它的用途的比喻。