heroically
英勇地,英雄般地,豪迈地,英雄地
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- : Also he·ro·i·cal . of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- : suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
- : having or displaying the character or attributes of a hero; extraordinarily bold, altruistic, determined, etc.: a heroic explorer.
- : having or involving recourse to boldness, daring, or extreme measures: Heroic measures were taken to save his life.
- : dealing with or describing the deeds, attributes, etc., of heroes, as in literature.
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of the heroes of antiquity: heroic mythology.
- : used in heroic poetry.Compare heroic verse.
- : resembling heroic poetry in language or style; grandiloquent.
- : lofty; extravagant; grand.
- : larger than life-size: a statue of heroic proportions.
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Examples
He returned to the London studios, playing the heroic investigator in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1936 thriller, Sabotage.
It would introduce him to some of the oldest, and in his opinion, most heroic people in the country.
It had the heroics of Owusu-Koramoah, a 215-pound senior force of wreckage from Tidewater in Virginia and coming soon to an NFL city near you.
There are also heroic efforts among NeverTrumpers, such as the team at the Bulwark, to take on purveyors of right-wing lies and nonsense.
Its hushed emptiness is about as far from heroic gestures as sculpture can go.
But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
We all felt the betrayal not so much of the institution as of the man who had noisily and heroically put it on the map.
Despite injury to his already long-damaged back, he performed heroically to bring his crew to safety.
Paul Volcker, who ran the Fed heroically from 1979 to 1987, was a highly effective central banker.
Three senators are heroically attempting to reduce federal government price supports for America's sugar industry.
The flux of pattern dimmed, then hesitated; blanked out and heroically began anew.
He called on them as sons of Spain, and they answered heroically, as Spaniards have ever done in history: "For honour!"