1BRAVEADMIREa woman who is admired for doing something extremely brave 女英雄 → hero
heroine of
a heroine of the French Resistance
法国抵抗运动的一位女英雄
2PERSON/PEOPLEthe woman or girl who is the main character in a book, film, play etc 女主角,女主人公 → hero
heroine of
Mira, the fictional heroine of ‘The Women’s Room’
迈拉,小说《女厕》的女主人公
3ADMIREWOMANa woman who is admired very much for a particular skill or quality 受崇拜的女人,女偶像 → hero, idol
somebody’s heroine
Oprah is my heroine.
奥普拉是我的偶像。
Examples from the Corpus
heroine• Part of the problem is that the movie presents a heroineprimed with emptyambition, but makes no comment on it.• a heroine of the French Resistance• The heroes and heroines are nearly always virgins.• In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life.• Kitty, her heroine, is dumpy, spotty, pallid and downtrodden.• She seems to see herself as some kind of romanticheroine in a trashynovel.• The novel's heroine, Kate Lee, is born in the South at the turn of the century.• They are the heroes and the heroines of their lives.• She is portrayed as the heroine of the play.• This one takes place in Bisbee; the heroine Joanna Brady is the sheriff of Bisbee.• The story is narrated entirely by the heroine.• The heroine of her latest novel is a middle-class English woman.• Yes, your heroine will be united with her destined mate.
Originheroine
(1600-1700)Latinheroina, from Greekheroine, from heros; → HERO
ADJECTIVE➤great偉大的女主人公◇Violetta is one of the great tragic heroines of opera.維奧莉塔是歌劇中重要的悲劇女主人公之一。➤real真正的女主人公◇Cassandra is the real heroine of the story.卡桑德拉是這個故事中真正的女主人公。➤national (especially BrE) 民族女英雄➤romantic, tragic愛情劇中的/悲劇中的女主人公➤feisty (especially BrE) , plucky活力四射的/執着而有膽量的女主人公➤feminist主張女權主義的女英雄➤unsung未受到讚頌的女英雄◇She remains one of the unsung heroines of the war.她依然是戰爭中默默無聞的女英雄之一。➤eponymous, titular同名女主人公◇Jane Eyre, the eponymous heroine of the novel by Charlotte Brontë簡・愛 - 夏洛蒂・勃朗特同名小說的女主人公➤fictional小說中的女主人公➤action動作片的女主人公➤sporting (BrE) 體育女明星