heroic的意思|heroic的解释-里氏词典

heroic [hi'rәuik]

a. 英勇的, 英雄式的, 壮丽雄伟的

n. 英雄诗, 史诗, 英勇行为

heroic

[ noun ]

a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter

<noun.communication>

[ adj ]

relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity

<adj.pert>

heroic legends

the heroic age

very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)

<adj.all>

an epic voyage

of heroic proportions

heroic sculpture

having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes

<adj.all>

the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy

heroic explorers

of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

<adj.all>

an expansive lifestyle

in the grand manner

collecting on a grand scale

heroic undertakings

showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort

<adj.all>

made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber

the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war

they took heroic measures to save his life

Heroic \He*ro"ic\, a. [F. h['e]ro["i]que, L. hero["i]cus, Gr.
?.]
1. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of
heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the
heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

2. Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as,
heroic action; heroic enterprises.

3. (Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller
than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human
figure.

{Heroic Age}, the age when the heroes, or those called the
children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.

{Heroic poetry}, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero;
epic poetry.

{Heroic treatment} or {Heroic remedies} (Med.), treatment or
remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate
case.

{Heroic verse} (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry,
being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten
syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and
in classic poetry the hexameter.

Syn: Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold;
gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous;
illustrious.

BBC1's tabloid telly series 999 (9.30) which shows films or reconstructions of heroic rescues today screens an amateur video record of the boy who fell into the gorilla pit at London Zoo.
SIR HENRY Cotton is revered in golf, as much for his heroic performances on the course as his considerable achievements off it.
The same heroic tale also appears in Mr. Rushdie's book.
The Canadian Ben Heppner, a heroic singer of uncommon intelligence, sensitivity and bounteous vocal gifts, struggled with those portions of the vocal writing most closely linked with Pears's tenorial idiosyncrasies.
Gutman is one of the few living survivors of the uprising in which hundreds of poorly armed Jews fought a heroic but doomed three-week battle resisting the final Nazi drive to liquidate the ghetto's last 70,000 inhabitants.
"If it hadn't been for them there's no doubt the child would have perished," Ingram said. "It was a heroic effort." Bass said he was spraying the burning plane with a fire extinguisher when he heard a child's cry come from inside the airplane.
"He filled an essential and even an heroic role at the Post," said Katherine Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Co.
But unlike Romero's heroic scare effort in which radiation turns corpses into killers, the latest work is a mindless, boring tale about a green vapor that turns the living into zombies who love to eat brains.
Both men showed honors from the battle of Monte Cassino, one of the Polish army's many heroic efforts through Africa and Italy.
He didn't propose any detailed aid plans for the two nations, but he called the Philippines a "heroic democracy ravaged by communist-led insurrection" and Afghanistan "a victim of brutal aggression."
Someone who moves here from Key West, Fla., or Los Angeles probably thinks Bostonians are heroic when it snows.
For centuries, rose breeders have named new varieties in honor of the heroic, the beautiful and the famous.
One gets the feeling both Ben's and Ireland's searches for selfhood are little more than pegs upon which the author hangs daring midnight raids and heroic slogs across the bogs.
And so, I would let the _ let the heroic performance of these people be weighed and measured, and then see if the Defense Department wanted to recommend to the President any additional changes.
There is, of course, as much to be learned from the failures of intelligence agencies as there is from their heroic and sometimes brilliant successes.
Pitted against Goebbels's overweening propaganda machine, a scrappy figure like Norman Ebbutt of the London Times (Peter Jeffrey) looks heroic even when shouting a drunken warning to an arriving delegation of befuddled Britons.
The cannon was fired at La Cabana's Plaza de Armas during a ceremony to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the literary creation of Elpidio Valdes, a fictional heroic youth from Cuba's 19th century war of independence with Spain.
This evening we land on the continent itself, and Skog has recognised the heroic symbolism of that act.
But at the memorial, they pulled together into a tight group around a heroic bronze statue of a lone sailor, legs braced and shoulders squared as if against a gale.
The heroic young entrepreneur and his friends successfully take on big companies, win a large share of the market, and drive down the price of toothpaste.
If it had stung you it would have been bad for you.' Puzzled, and slightly alarmed, I finished the round and gave my protector an extra tip for his heroic action.
Her day-by-day account of their ghastly trial and heroic deaths is wrenching, but to read the details of their ill-planned venture is also to wonder: What happened to the German mania for precision?
Others speak softly of lost comrades in one of the most heroic and secretive exploits of the war.
A Missouri traveler recalled a conversation with him in which Boone said, "Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which only exist in the regions of fancy.
During the ceremony, the Polish-born pontiff praised Agnes for her "Christian faith and heroic charity." Agnes rejected efforts by her parents _ King Premysl Otakar I and Queen Constance _ to arrange her a royal wedding.
Shrill altoist Eric Marienthal continues from the old band and he is joined by Gary Novak's machine gun drumming, Jimmy Earl's monster bass lines and Mike Miller's heroic licks.
His 'heroic pastoral' Titon et l'Aurora was produced in 1753 at the Opera in Paris with Marie Fel and the tenor Jelyotte. Titon is a shepherd in love with the goddess Aurora.
They travel at exotic speeds - always above 100mph - they can never be beaten away from traffic lights, and they never have bumps or scrapes, just heroic acts of derring-do. I know this because I am a motor cyclist.
A tiny speck in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Libya, Malta is known if at all for its famous cross, the movie starring its falcon and Humphrey Bogart, and its heroic self-defense against Axis bombing.
His Majesty played a truly heroic role in bringing hostilities between our two peoples to an end," Reagan said, referring to Hirohito's decision to end World War II.

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