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superman

/soo-per-man/US // ˈsu pərˌmæn //UK // (ˈsuːpəˌmæn) //

超人,超级英雄,蝙蝠侠

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural su·per·men.

    • : a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
    • : an ideal superior being conceived by Nietzsche who attains happiness, dominance, and creativity.
    • : a superior being conceived as the product of human evolution.
    • : one who prevails by virtue of being a ruthless egoist of superior strength, cunning, and force of will.

Examples

  • Long is a superman of sorts, the result of a genetic experiment that lets him live for hundreds of years.

  • Ashtain Rothchild, a New York City-based trainer who also works with fitness startup Mirror, recommends activities including glute bridges, bent-over rows, and banded superman pulls.

  • Can you imagine Superman being handed over to a writer just a notch above amateur?

  • What this essentially means is that superman-wannabe white people do not see my people as their equal.

  • That all-American iconography has always been so potent in the Superman myth.

  • When she joins Batman and Superman in the Justice Society of America, she does so as secretary.

  • Marston wrote that Wonder Woman needed “all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.”

  • I dreamed for you a triumphal march of powerful harmonies, a genius, a superman, such as only you deserve.

  • To-day the Kaiser claims to have won the victory of "a superman."

  • These lashes are the vision of the superman, of the one who rightfully possesses strength, happiness, and liberty.

  • It is not beyond the imagination to believe that your Mekstrom Superman might live three times our frail four-score and ten.

  • And then it came to me that what I really wanted second of all was to possess a body of Mekstrom Flesh, to be a physical superman.