Hero
['hɪərəʊ] or ['hɪro]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem.
(noun.) (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her.
(noun.) (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god.
(noun.) a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; 'RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain'.
(noun.) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).
手打:奥拉夫--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
(n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
(n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
編輯:西尔维亚
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Brave man.[2]. Principal character.
布莱恩錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CHAMPION]
加德纳整理
解釋/意思:
n. a man of distinguished bravery: any illustrious person: the principal figure in any history or work of fiction: (orig.) a demigod:—fem. Heroine (her′ō-in).—adj. Herō′ic becoming a hero: courageous: illustrious: daring rash.—n. a heroic verse: (pl.) extravagant phrases bombast.—adj. Herō′ical.—adv. Herō′ically—(Milt.) Herō′icly.—ns. Herō′icalness Herō′icness.—adjs. Herō′icomic -al consisting of a mixture of heroic and comic: designating the high burlesque.—ns. Her′oism the qualities of a hero: courage: boldness; Hē′roship the state of being a hero; Hē′ro-wor′ship the worship of heroes: excessive admiration of great men.—Heroic age the semi-mythical period of Greek history when the heroes or demigods were represented to have lived among men; Heroic medicines such as either kill or cure; Heroic size in sculpture larger than life but less than colossal; Heroic verse the style of verse in which the exploits of heroes are celebrated (in classical poetry the hexameter; in English and German the iambic of ten syllables; in French the alexandrine).
艾莉森編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He was the hero of her imagination, the image carved by love in the unchanged texture of her heart. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A sort of Byronic hero--an amorous conspirator, it strikes me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- De Hamal is an unutterable puppy, besides being a very white-livered hero. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Her hero himself only half understood her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Then does this man resemble Margrave, the hero of the book? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He would abandon a hero's or a martyr's end gladly. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- There, and through it all, my dear physician was a hero. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- That's all it is, Gerald, my young hero. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Enough of gods and heroes;--what shall we say about men? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Under a series of wise men and heroes they wage a generally unsuccessful and never very united warfare against their enemies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With heroes of many nations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- All your subjects, Justinian, are making heroes of them, especially the women, much to the dismay of the men of Melnos. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Who are your heroes? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And, after all, authors' heroines are almost as good as authoresses' heroes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- What fine heroes you are yourselves! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
校對:诺琳