| 词汇 | superman |
| 释义 | superman noun[ C ] uk /ˈsuː.pə.mæn/ us /ˈsuː.pɚ.mæn/plural-menuk /-men/us a man who has greater strength, ability, intelligence, etc. than other men: 超人 The film portrays Gandhi as a kind of superman.这部电影把甘地刻画得像个超人。 Exceptional qualities, things and people a gift from the godsidiom be a oneidiom character curiosity distinction distinctiveness exoticism favoured gift have-a-go hero individual magic national treasure nonpareil personal touch rare breed right the chosen fewidiom the X factor uniqueness Examples of supermansuperman The superman's self-transformation was premised on the devaluation of the mass or the crowd figured as female. The medium and the superman were bodies on display. The romantic ideal of self-overcoming within the ' superman ' literature resonated with feminist thought. The genius as superman came to be a remote and even illegible figure, who had overcome weaknesses and constraints through the power of the will. While seemingly poles apart, the medium and the superman were alike in that in both a paradoxical gender inscription conveyed an epistemological and ontological instability. Of course, monsters can be upbeat too, as other countless cases of supermen testify. Second, the interest in the ' superman ' was not only a political one, but also spiritual or occult. The new product is represented by a flying scientist (white adult superman), who recapitulates and advances over his predecessors. The well-established literature on genius fed into this understanding of what the superman represented. Modern man is merely a link between ape and superman. The emphasis was on women's own power to bring on the age of the superman or superwoman. There must be ordinary men if there are to be supermen. Any attempt to offer a feminine version of the superman without systematically challenging the gendered discourse of genius and superhumanity was not likely to succeed. An additional connotation of ' superman ' was one of breeding and racial selection. If the superman figured "the spectacle of the commodity" (12), the medium enacted the spectacle of materiality itself. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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