The heroine of the mask, as you know, doesn't seem to have a Christian name. She's not Britney or Lindsay.

你们也知道《面具》里的女主角，似乎没有教名，她不是布兰妮或林赛。

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But it's, of course, the Lady who's the heroine of this piece.

但当然，小姐才是这部作品的主角。

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She is acting out a form: in the first case the form of romantic fiction, the heroine who swoons back in this scene the form of the game, the perfect form of tennis.

她总是摆出一些姿势：,第一次是在爱情小说中疲倦已极的女主角,这一次则是游戏，完美的网球游戏。

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It's a literary genre that dates back to late classical Greece and which typically charts the trials and tribulations of a hero, in many cases the trials and tribulations of a virginal heroine.

它是一种文学流派，可以追溯到古典希腊时期,这种流派规划了一位英雄了考验和磨难，许多情况下是给一位童贞的女英雄的考验和磨难。

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The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine."

读者要把自己当成是男主角或女主角“

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The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

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