单词 | mary sue |
释义 | Mary Suen. depreciative. Originally in fan fiction: a type of idealized female character, typically a young woman, unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses; (also) a story featuring such a character, or such stories as a genre. Frequently attributive, esp. in Mary Sue story. ΚΠ 1976 Menagerie Mar. 2 Too willing are we to smatter down a Mary Sue story and call it high tragedy, or say, ‘I don't care if it's dumb, if it's about Spock.’ 1992 C. Bacon-Smith Enterprising Women 94 Writing about women would seem to be the natural project of a women's community, but in fact the set of genres dealing with women have had a troubled history, and none more so than ‘Mary Sue’. 1997 C. Penley NASA/TREK 141 ‘Mary Sue’ stories, as the fans call them, are utterly reviled, even though such stories are often the first story that a fan will write. 2003 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. ii. 33/4 Sister Bertrille is the original Mary Sue—the term the Internet..uses to deride too-good-to-be-true characters like Wesley Crusher of ‘Star Trek’. 2015 K. McManus in C. K. Farr Wizard of their Age ii. 42 Because they have become cliché, stories centering on Mary Sues are often dismissed and have very few reviews or hits. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1976 |
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