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