Audacious
[ɔː'deɪʃəs] or [ɔ'deʃəs]
解释:
(adj.) disposed to venture or take risks; 'audacious visions of the total conquest of space'; 'an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas'; 'the most daring of contemporary fiction writers'; 'a venturesome investor'; 'a venturous spirit' .
(adj.) unrestrained by convention or propriety; 'an audacious trick to pull'; 'a barefaced hypocrite'; 'the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim'- Los Angeles Times; 'bald-faced lies'; 'brazen arrogance'; 'the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress'- Bertrand Russell .
(adj.) invulnerable to fear or intimidation; 'audacious explorers'; 'fearless reporters and photographers'; 'intrepid pioneers' .
埃莉整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Daring; spirited; adventurous.
(a.) Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
(a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.
编辑:米考伯
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Bold, daring, fearless, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted.[2]. Presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent.
安德烈整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Insolent, adventurous, venturesome, presumptuous, valiant, rash, bold, daring,reckless, enterprising
ANT:Timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome, unenterprising
布雷迪录入
解释:
adj. daring: bold: impudent.—adv. Audā′ciously.—ns. Audā′ciousness Audacity (aw-das′i-ti).
奥古斯汀录入
例句:
- Mr. Trabb's boy was the most audacious boy in all that country-side. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- She was an audacious woman, and openly looked compassionately at me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- This audacious statement caused Raggles and the other personages present to look at one another with a wild surprise, and with it Rebecca left them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- War rages yet with the audacious Boythorn, though at uncertain intervals, and now hotly, and now coolly, flickering like an unsteady fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The answer I wrote to this audacious proposal was as short and sharp as I could make it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They went away by one of the London night coaches, and I know no more about him; except that his malevolence to me at parting was audacious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- These questions were considered by all the curates as, to the last degree, audacious and impious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Have the irreconcilables a soul audacious and less blunted than our domesticated ones? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Well, I never--said she--what an audacious--Emotion prevented her from completing either sentence. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I wouldn't be guilty of the audacious insolence of keeping a lady of the house waiting all this time for any earthly consideration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Audacious one! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
奥古斯汀录入