Capone was an underdog hero, a poor boy who made it big.

卡彭是个草莽英雄，一个飞黄腾达了的穷小子。

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Well, there's a hero, a knight, who goes to battle, and he is admired for his courage, bravery and loyalty, loyalty to the lord he serves, his country and his fellow warriors in the field.

嗯，有个骑士英雄上阵了，他因以胆识、英勇和忠诚对待所侍奉的主人、自己的国家和战场上的同胞而受到赞誉。

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He has been variously described as a hero, a genius and a bully.

他被描述为英雄、天才、恶霸，不一而足。

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The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

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And although Jacob appears to be something of an anti-hero He actually literally limps into the Promised Land alone Jacob is a new and honest man.

尽管雅各布貌似是一个反英雄式人物,他实际上确实是独自艰难地进入应许之地的,雅各布是一个全新的诚实的人。

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Now as it happens--this is a novel--as it happens, our hero looks rather like the other man.

小说中故事就这样发生了，我们的主角和另一个人长得很像。

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"I am very proud to endorse my friend and fellow Republican -- a hero -- John McCain, " Giuliani said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley California, two hours before the Republican presidential candidates were to face each other in their final debate before the Super Tuesday contests next week.

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Since the thieves (who dressed as police) have not been identified, and since every crime story needs a villain, Stolen substitutes a hero with a would-be hero--the crime's investigator, Harold Smith , a respected insurance investigator of 78, disfigured by skin cancer, who has made recovering the Gardner pictures the mission of his retirement.

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Malcolm, who achieved fame in the early sixties as a compelling spokesman for the black-pride philosophy of the Nation of Islam, is an unlikely hero for a big-studio prestige picture: he begins as a predatory street criminal, becomes a studious Muslim ascetic, and fulfills himself as a scourge.

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