Today you would be hard-pressed to find a leading character who smokes in any top 10 box office movie.

今天，你已经很难在票房前十位的电影中找到会吸烟的主角了。

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The leading character in this book is a person who can face difficulties and never give up.

这本书的主角是一个能直面困难、永不言弃的人。

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The author characterized the leading character in the novel as a dauntless hero.

作者将小说中的主人公描绘成一个大无畏的英雄。

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S., a leading innovator in optical character recognition (OCR)software, is excited to announce the availability of their IRISNotes 2 lineup, digital pens that capture handwritten notes and convert them into edible text on a computer.

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The other main character is Liang Qichao, a leading Chinese intellectual in the twilight of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing, and the chaotic early years after it fell in 1911.

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Mr Mason, who set the firm up in 2008, is a colourful character who was once photographed for a leading magazine with a cat on his head.

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