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heroically

/hi-roh-ik/US // hɪˈroʊ ɪk //UK // (hɪˈrəʊɪk) //

英勇地,英雄般地,豪迈地,英雄地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also he·ro·i·cal . of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
    • : suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
    • : having or displaying the character or attributes of a hero; extraordinarily bold, altruistic, determined, etc.: a heroic explorer.
    • : having or involving recourse to boldness, daring, or extreme measures: Heroic measures were taken to save his life.
    • : dealing with or describing the deeds, attributes, etc., of heroes, as in literature.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of the heroes of antiquity: heroic mythology.
    • : used in heroic poetry.Compare heroic verse.
    • : resembling heroic poetry in language or style; grandiloquent.
    • : lofty; extravagant; grand.
    • : larger than life-size: a statue of heroic proportions.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually heroics . heroic verse.
    • : heroics, flamboyant or extravagant language, sentiment, or behavior, intended to seem heroic.heroic action or behavior.

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Examples

  • He returned to the London studios, playing the heroic investigator in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1936 thriller, Sabotage.

  • It would introduce him to some of the oldest, and in his opinion, most heroic people in the country.

  • It had the heroics of Owusu-Koramoah, a 215-pound senior force of wreckage from Tidewater in Virginia and coming soon to an NFL city near you.

  • There are also heroic efforts among NeverTrumpers, such as the team at the Bulwark, to take on purveyors of right-wing lies and nonsense.

  • Its hushed emptiness is about as far from heroic gestures as sculpture can go.

  • But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.

  • We all felt the betrayal not so much of the institution as of the man who had noisily and heroically put it on the map.

  • Despite injury to his already long-damaged back, he performed heroically to bring his crew to safety.

  • Paul Volcker, who ran the Fed heroically from 1979 to 1987, was a highly effective central banker.

  • Three senators are heroically attempting to reduce federal government price supports for America's sugar industry.

  • The flux of pattern dimmed, then hesitated; blanked out and heroically began anew.

  • He called on them as sons of Spain, and they answered heroically, as Spaniards have ever done in history: "For honour!"

  • There was something superb in it, something heroically mad—not the sordid drunkenness of small beer.

  • And truly without hope, from 1479 to 1505, they bore heroically three sieges and flung back three different armies of Florence.

  • A compensation within myself, I mean––a recollection of at least one heroically unselfish act.