protagonist
英 [prə'tæɡənɪst] 美 [prə'tæɡənɪst]
n.主角；支持者
◉词源
“protagonist”源自希腊语“prōtagōnistēs”，由“prōtos”（第一）和“agōnistēs”（演员、竞争者）组成，意为“首席演员”。17世纪进入英语，最初用于戏剧指主要角色，后扩展为文学或现实中故事的主角或主要人物。
◉外刊例句
① 《The New Yorker》 (2024年10月20日)
The novel’s protagonist navigates a dystopian world.
小说的主人公在一个反乌托邦世界中穿梭。
② 《The Guardian》 (2023年12月15日)
She emerged as the protagonist in the political drama.
她在政治戏剧中崭露头角，成为主角。
◉经典名著
《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby） by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Gatsby, the protagonist of his own dream, believed in the green light.
盖茨比，他自己梦想的主角，相信那绿光。
◉Usage Examples
(1) Everybody is the protagonist in oneself story.
(2) She has created a dashing young man as the protagonist of her new novel.
(3) It was in this role, as the protagonist of the popular cause, that the newspaper captured the imagination of our intelligentsia.
(1) 每个人都是自己故事里旳主角。
(2) 她在她的新小说中创造了一个精力充沛的年轻人作主角。
(3) 在这种作用中，报纸作为民众事业的倡导者，又激发了我们知识界的想象力。
◉Usage Examples
A protagonist is the central character in a story: the protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is — guess who? — Huckleberry Finn.
A novel, movie, or play might have many main characters, but it can really only have one protagonist — or maybe two in the case of, say, Romeo and Juliet. That's because protos means "first" in Greek, and agonistes means "competitor" or "actor." It can also mean a leading figure in a real-life situation: "Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were the protagonists of the U.S. Civil War." Don't use it to mean "a supporter of an idea or cause"; the word you're looking for in that situation is proponent.
◉柯林斯词典
1[N-COUNT 可数名词]提倡者；拥护者 Someone who is a protagonist of an idea or movement is a supporter of it. [oft N of n] [FORMAL 正式]
...the main protagonists of their countries' integration into the world market.
积极呼吁他们的国家融入世界市场的主要倡导者
2[N-COUNT 可数名词]主人公；主角；（真实事件的）主要人物 A protagonist in a play, novel, or real event is one of the main people in it. [FORMAL 正式]
...the protagonist of J. D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'...
塞林格的小说《麦田里的守望者》的主人公
The chief protagonists in the row are Visa and Mastercard, the world's leading credit card brands.
这场纠纷的主角是世界两大信用卡品牌——维萨和万事达。