【原】heroine 和 heroin，哪个是海洛因的意思

英语中同音词是非常普遍的存在，在英语学习过程中，应该归纳总结，分门别类。heroine 和 heroin 发音一样，都是 [ˈherəʊɪn]，而且拼写只差一个字母，那么到底哪个是海洛因的意思呢？

一、heroine 作名词，意为“女英雄，女豪杰；女主人公，女主角；崇拜的女人；女偶像”，例如：

The national heroine of the day was Xing Fen, winner of the first Gold medal of the Games.

现今的民族英雄是在该运动会上获得首枚金牌的邢芬。

解析：名词短语 winner of the first Gold medal of the Games 作同位语。

The heroine is a senior TV executive.

女主角是一名电视台的高级主管。

My heroine was Elizabeth Taylor.

我心目中的偶像是伊丽莎白·泰勒。

二、heroin 作名词，意为“海洛因”，例如：

23 people were arrested and large quantities of heroin were seized in a dawn raid .

在黎明的突袭行动中，23人被捕，缴获大量海洛因。

The girls were duped by drug smugglers into carrying heroin for them.

女孩们被毒品走私犯骗去帮她们携带海洛因。

He was arrested at the airport with a kilo of heroin secreted in his clothing.

他在机场被捕，衣服里藏有一公斤海洛因。

Customs officers at Felixstowe discovered heroin with a street value of £6 million.

费利克斯托海关官员发现了街头价值600万英镑的海洛因。

By the age of 14 he was addicted to heroin.

他14岁时就染上了海洛因。

解析：be addicted to sth 意为“上瘾，成瘾，有瘾；入迷”，通常不作定语。

词汇量是学习英语的根本，所以词汇量小是硬伤，严重影响到听说写，所以平时有规律的点滴积累才是长久之计。