The modern-day sex symbol has now taken the place of the old-fashioned hero of yesteryear.

当今的性感偶像已经取代了往昔过时的英雄形象。

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The much touted anti-leukemia drug Gleevec here appears as the hero of modern, genetics-based cancer therapy, a “rationally designed” drug specifically directed against a known cancer gene.

格列卫（Gleevec）这种广为宣传的抗白血病药物在这里成了现代基因癌症治疗的英雄，是一种“理性设计”出来专门针对特定肿瘤基因的药物。

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Tyler Durden is the modern anti-hero!

泰勒·德顿是现代版的反英雄式人物！

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There is as yet no modern hero able to still the pace of habitat loss or prevent invasion from rival species.

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This understanding of numbers has made him a hero to the modern "Moneyball" generation of baseball fans and executives who see baseball as one big algorithm.

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Mr Zhang, 61, directed some of China's most successful modern martial arts films, including Hero and House of Flying Daggers.

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