英语词典 · 单词释义
temerity
英 [tə'merəti] 美 [tə'mɛrəti]
这里集中整理“temerity”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 鲁莽，冒失；蛮勇
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temerity 鲁莽，冒失
来自拉丁语 temere,盲目，冲动，鲁莽，来自 PIE*teme,黑暗，词源同 tenebrous,黑暗的。
英文词源
- temerity
- temerity: [15] Someone who behaves with temerity is etymologically acting in the ‘dark’. The word was adapted from Latin temeritās ‘rashness’, a derivative of temere ‘blindly’, hence ‘rashly’. This in turn was formed from an unrecorded *temus ‘darkness’, a relative of tenebrae ‘darkness’, and hence originally denoted ‘acting in the dark, so that one cannot see’.
- temerity (n.)
- late 14c., from Latin temeritatem (nominative temeritas) "blind chance, accident; rashness, indiscretion, foolhardiness," from temere "by chance, at random; indiscreetly, rashly," related to tenebrae "darkness," from PIE root *teme- "dark" (cognates: Sanskrit tamas- "darkness," tamsrah "dark;" Avestan temah "darkness;" Lithuanian tamsa "darkness," tamsus "dark;" Old Church Slavonic tima "darkness;" Old High German dinstar "dark;" Old Irish temel "darkness"). The connecting notion is "blindly, without foreseeing."
双语例句
- 1. He had the temerity to call me a liar!
- 他竟敢说我撒谎！
来自《权威词典》
- 2. He had the temerity to call me a liar.
- 他竟胆敢说我撒谎.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. He had the temerity to ask for higher wages after only a day's work.
- 只工作了一天,他就蛮不讲理地要求增加工资.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He has even had the temerity to invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in defence of his actions.
- 他竟然敢搬出马丁·路德·金和马尔科姆·艾克斯的名字来为自己的行为辩解。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Tins took some temerity, but it was fruitless.
- 这件事做得有点莽撞, 但结果还是无用.
来自辞典例句
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