Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’
斐利斯•福格,儒勒•凡尔纳《八十天环游地球》的男主人公
3ADMIREMANa man who is admired very much for a particular skill or quality 偶像 → heroine
somebody’s hero
When I was small, Uncle Fred was my hero.
我小时候,弗雷德叔叔是我的偶像。
hero of
Einstein is the hero of those who explore science at its deepest level.
爱因斯坦是探索科学最深层秘密的人心目中的偶像。
4.American EnglishAmEDFF a long thinsandwich filled with meat, cheese etc 〔夹有肉、奶酪等的〕长面包三明治,潜艇三明治
n5.from hero to zeroinformal used to say that someone goes from being very successful or admired to being very unsuccessful or unpopular
nCOLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 3
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + hero
a real/true hero
The real heroes were the guys who fought in the front lines.
a great hero
He finally got to meet his great hero, the Brazilian footballer, Pele.
a national hero
They regard Aung San as a national hero and martyr.
a local hero
Richards was a local hero, a star of the football club.
a popular hero (=someone whom many people admire)
Ross was an arctic explorer and popular hero.
a cult hero (=someone who a particular group of people admire)
He became a cult hero among surfers.
a war hero (=a soldier who was very brave in a war)
Coming home, he was hailed as a war hero.
an unsung hero (=someone whose bravery or effort is not noticed or recognized)
These volunteers are the unsung heroes of the campaign.
an unlikely hero (=someone who you did not expect to be brave or did not expect to admire )
Baxter was the unlikely hero of the game.
a sporting hero (=someone who people admire in a sport)
Tiger Woods was his sporting hero.
a folk hero (=an ordinary person who does something brave and becomes a hero in a particular place)
Cesar Chavez has folk hero status in the Latino community.
an accidental hero (=someone who becomes a hero by chance)
He became an accidental hero after discovering the injured child while out walking.
a conquering hero (=someone who has defeated someone else)
Team members were greeted like conquering heroes on their return.
somebody’s boyhood/childhood hero (=someone who was your hero when you were a boy/child)
McEnroe had been one of his boyhood heroes.
verbs
become a hero
He became a national hero for his part in the war.
be hailed (as) a hero (=people say you are a hero)
He was hailed a hero after saving the young girl’s life.
phrases
get/be given a hero’s welcome (=be treated as a hero when you arrive somewhere)
The team were given a hero’s welcome when they returned to the city.
Examples from the Corpus
hero• Conway returned home, hailed as a hero of the war.• Defenseattorney Ana Ortiz, who referred to her client as Billyjack, said he is a hero by any name.• It is counterproductive to be derogatory about hairstyle, clothing, or current countercultural heroes.• Because Masten was his hero, he was a little nervous.• Racingdrivers appear to be larger-than-life heroes.• His legend, like the stories of most heroes, begins badly.• One is that the shelf life of heroes is short.• sportsheroes• In cinema, the hero always got the girl and the bad guy was always punished.• Indiana Jones is the hero of the film.• Here we have the concept of the maverick, the heroinnovator, the streetwiseentrepreneur, that several speakers have described.• Who was the hero of "The Catcher in the Rye"?• The hero of the story is a young soldier.• Hamlet is Shakespeare's most famoustragichero.• Shakespeare's best-known tragic hero is probably Hamlet.
hailed as a hero• Read in studio A man hailed as a hero for fifty years has been unmasked as a traitor.