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protagonist

/proh-tag-uh-nist/US // proʊˈtæg ə nɪst //UK // (prəʊˈtæɡənɪst) //

主角,主角人物,主人公,主体人物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
    • : a proponent for or advocate of a political cause, social program, etc.
    • : the leader or principal person in a movement, cause, etc.
    • : the first actor in ancient Greek drama, who played not only the main role, but also other roles when the main character was offstage.Compare deuteragonist, tritagonist.
    • : Physiology. agonist.

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Examples

  • The trailer shows the protagonist digging what appears to be a grave, knifing a bad guy and conducting an interrogation with a hatchet.

  • In the most popular films of 2019, protagonists were more diverse than ever, and there were more women were behind the camera.

  • In the 2013 movie Her, the protagonist develops a romantic relationship with a virtual assistant, and is soon disillusioned when he realizes that he was projecting human feelings and motivations onto “her” alien mind.

  • Wild boars, traffic-snarling flocks of sheep that cross the road from one field to another, mice and snakes are the regular protagonists in any chit-chat about life in Sant’Ippolito.

  • The Jedi, the main protagonists in Star Wars, rely on the light, of course.

  • As the protagonist gets herself off in front of her impotent husband, she moans “Oh, Gronky.”

  • Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

  • As a result, the exhibit falls short of showing Mary as real woman, as a protagonist in her own life story.

  • Dave Eggers wrote What Is The What after conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with his protagonist.

  • The protagonist is the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, born in 1893.

  • He draws to himself rather more than his share of interest and sympathy, to the detriment of the protagonist.

  • Its protagonist had come home after completing his education in Vienna; and there was the family gathered to greet him.

  • It is in fact the first division of literature in which the heroine assumes the position of a protagonist.

  • He had lost the protagonist against whom, for a while, he had stood almost alone, and soon we find him complaining of neglect.

  • And so with Pepys and his adored protagonist: adored not blindly, but with trenchant insight and enduring, human toleration.