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heroine

/her-oh-in/US // ˈhɛr oʊ ɪn //UK // (ˈhɛrəʊɪn) //

女主角,女英雄,女主人公,女侠

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
    • : a woman who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal: Name two women who have been heroines in your life.
    • : the principal female character in a story, play, film, etc.

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Examples

  • Raya is a gorgeous, accessible film, with engaging characters, a winning heroine, and sumptuous animation from start to finish.

  • Back in Nome, as the families of Maurer, Crawford and Galle clamored for an investigation into the men’s fates, Ada became something of a celebrity, hailed in the press as a heroine on par with Robinson Crusoe.

  • Virgil stands for empire, too, but he’s also an interesting riff on a classic gothic trope, which is for there to be a sexual attraction tinged with violence between heroine and antihero.

  • If the outbreak had been a movie, this would have been the scene where the heroine mobilizes an all-star squad of specialists to save the planet.

  • These new fiction releases are oddly compatible tales of gritty heroines on long-haul journeys in a natural world on the brink of destruction.

  • Even though victims groups see Haselberg as a heroine, she feels she could have done more.

  • Presumably, while our formerly sad animated heroine picks daisies in her garden (and it is almost always hers, not his).

  • The 30-something heroine glamorized the metropolis and its coveted name brands, Arora says.

  • The artist Mike Denison has set himself a challenge: to draw one picture a day for an entire year of his heroine Bea Arthur.

  • Mischievous and spirited, she was a heroine for generations of young girls who read and idolized her.

  • Besides, when he hears it's for that real heroine of a kidnapping story everybody was talking about, he'll be willing enough.

  • Mistral enumerates eight dramatic works treating the life of his heroine.

  • But the reward for virtue, which frequently fails to make its appearance, waited upon our heroine.

  • Who then can wonder that our young heroine should begin to think herself of more consequence than she really was?

  • The little girl heroine adds another to the list of favorites so well known to the young people.