词组 | character |
释义 | character /ˈkærəktə, ˈkærɪktə $ -ər/ noun 1. a person in a book, play, film etcadjectives/nouns + characterthe main/central/leading character Alec is the central character in the play.a minor/supporting character Two of the minor characters get killed.a male/female character He is the most sympathetic male character in the book.a television/movie/cartoon character Who’s your favourite television character?a comic/tragic character (=a funny or sad one) Homer Simpson is a great comic character.a fictional/fictitious character (=not existing in real life) People sometimes forget that television characters are fictional.a believable/convincing character (=seeming like a real person) The characters were totally convincing.a memorable character The extraordinary Mrs Jewkes is the novel’s most memorable character.a sympathetic character (=one you like) In the book, Jeff isn’t a sympathetic character.an interesting character For me, the nurse is the most interesting character.verbsplay a character I wanted to play the character of Danny.create a character He created several memorable characters.portray a character (=show one in a play, book, film etc) The main characters are brilliantly portrayed.develop a character (=make a character become more interesting) The movie didn’t develop his character as well as the book did.character + nounscharacter development (=when you learn more about a character) I thought the plot was boring and there wasn’t much character development.2. the qualities which make someone a particular kind of personadjectivesa strong character You need brains and a strong character to be a leader.sb’s true character She is unaware of his true character.character + nounsa character trait (=a quality that someone has) Your greatest character trait is your honesty.a character flaw (=a bad quality that someone has) Few people have no character flaws at all.phrasesbe in character/out of character (=be typical or untypical of someone’s character) His unkindness on that occasion was entirely out of character.a side of sb’s character (=a part of someone’s character) He had revealed a side of his character I hadn’t seen before. |
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