名词 character:

1. an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

2. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

3. the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions- Herbert Spencer

4. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play

5. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)

6. good repute

7. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability

8. a written symbol that is used to represent speech

9. (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes

动词 character:

1. engrave or inscribe characters on

charactern.个性；品质；字符；人物；名誉；地位adj.[剧](角色)代表某一特性的Character once一次一字符characterisitc特色character code文字代码character book征信书character tree字符树character unit字符设备character head字头character fill字符填充Character line特征线character base字符基础; 字符基准制

1. The story has several cardboard characters.
   这个故事里有好几个虚构的人物。
2. A novelist creates characters and a plot.
   小说家塑造人物并设计作品的情节。
3. There are five characters in this film.
   这部电影里有五个角色。
4. Strassman fired up two characters, John and Mary.
   斯特拉斯曼激活了两个角色，一个叫玛丽，一个叫约翰。
5. This paper studies the aerodynamics characters of motorcycles.
   本文对摩托车的空气动力特性进行研究。
6. Luminous characters of thallium iodide used as luminous material in metal halide lamps are presented.
   文章用图表介绍了碘化铊用作金属卤化物灯发光材料时的发光特性。
7. The actual number of characters read.
   读取的实际字符数。
8. Property holds up to fifteen characters.
   属性最多包含十五个字符。