Adventure
[əd'ventʃə] or [əd'vɛntʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril.
(n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
(n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
(n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
(n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
錄入:奥维尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake.[2]. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.[3]. Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, contingency.[4]. (Com.) Speculation.
v. a. Hazard, venture, risk, peril, imperil, put to hazard, put at risk, put in danger.
v. n. Dare, venture, take the risk, run the risk, incur the hazard.
贝丝編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty,undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance
ANT:Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course
巴兹尔錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a risk or chance: a remarkable incident: an enterprise: trial of the issue: risk: a commercial speculation: the spirit of enterprise.—v.i. to attempt or dare.—v.t. to risk or hazard: (refl.) to venture.—v.i. to risk one's self (with on into upon): to dare go so far as to.—n. Advent′urer one who engages in hazardous enterprises: a soldier of fortune or speculator: one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means as false pretences &c.:—fem. Advent′uress.—adjs. Advent′urous Advent′uresome enterprising: ready to incur risk.—adv. Advent′urously.—n. Advent′urousness.
卡梅拉整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He declared himself entirely at her disposal: the adventure struck him as diverting. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore, expecting the issue of this great adventure. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- This did not make the night's adventure run any less hotly in Mr Dorrit's mind, either when he sat down by his fire again, or when he went to bed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At last, a carpenter in the city, Peter Van der Mey by name, undertook the adventure. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I wish you were all going, but as you can't, I shall keep my adventures to tell you when I come back. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- No more adventures, I suppose, this evening? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- What were the adventures of Mr. Osborne and Miss Amelia? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We were all virtuous girls when Amy, one fine afternoon, left her father's house and sallied forth, like Don Quixote, in quest of adventures. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Darwin's account of his adventures and manifold observations is so informal, so rich in detail, as not to admit of summary. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Meantime you can go to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, where you will, and enjoy pictures, music, scenery, and adventures to your heart's content. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Hitherto their overflow of population had gone adventuring southward into the disorders of divided China as water goes into a sponge. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
手打:朱迪