As prescribed by Dryden, tragedy was supposed to concern a heroic man who is a public figure and who undergoes a fall that evokes pity from the audience.

正如德莱顿所说，悲剧应该是关于一个英雄人物的故事：他是一个公众人物，经历了一场磨难，让观众同情。

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He is a heroic man.

他是一位英雄人物。

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There are few heroic qualities to be found in the ample figure of the foul-mouthed family man.

在这个满口污言秽语的家族中，英雄的品质几乎很难找到。

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is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

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Lummus engaged in what his citation calls a heroic one-man assault before he was killed by a land mine.

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Both have advantages and disadvantages, much as the broad, impersonal-forces approach to the past and the heroic, great-man theory of history each have theirs.

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But if a black man could be heroic and have all the attributes that you give to the best qualities in men, then how was it possible to treat a black man as subservient or as a non-person?

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