Dare
[deə] or [dɛr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; 'he could never refuse a dare'.
(verb.) to be courageous enough to try or do something; 'I don't dare call him', 'she dares to dress differently from the others'.
埃米尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
(v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
(v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
(n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
(n.) Defiance; challenge.
(v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.
(v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.
(n.) A small fish; the dace.
整理:保罗
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Venture, presume, have courage, be bold enough, not be afraid.
v. a. Bravo, defy, challenge.
阿蒂整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Venture, face, brave, hazard, risk, defy, challenge
ANT:Shrink, shun, dread, cower
科琳錄入
解釋/意思:
v.i. to be bold enough: to venture:—pa.t. durst.—v.t. to challenge: to defy.—n. (Shak.) boldness a challenge.—n. Dare′-dev′il a rash venturesome fellow.—adj. unreasonably rash and reckless.—adjs. Dare′ful (Shak.) full of daring adventurous; Dar′ing bold: courageous: fearless.—n. boldness.—n. Dar′ing-do (see Derring-doe).—adj. Dar′ing-hard′y (Shak.) foolhardy.—adv. Dar′ingly.—I dare say I suppose.
v.t. to frighten terrify.
n. a small river fish of the carp family and of the same genus as the roach chub minnow &c.
錄入:赛斯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was said he had got possession of his Indian jewel by means which, bold as he was, he didn't dare acknowledge. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Think you, Tars Tarkas, that John Carter will fly at the first shriek of a cowardly foe who dare not come out into the open and face a good blade? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Ah, I dare say I did. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I dare say I owe as much as good-natured people will let me owe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Dare you take the freedom of going all over the house? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He doctors sick horses, I dare say? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Mrs. Elton is very good-natured and agreeable, and I dare say her acquaintance are just what they ought to be. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He had not dared to tell it sooner. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She could not doubt, she dared not indulge a hope, of the paragraph being false. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- My Prince, he started, where hast thou-- and then he stopped, but I knew the question that his lips dared not frame. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It was undeniably exciting to meet a lady who found the van der Luydens' Duke dull, and dared to utter the opinion. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The enemy had not dared to come out of his line at any point to follow up his advantage, except in the single instance of his attack on Barlow. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There she lay, unconscious that I was looking at her--quiet, more quiet than I had dared to hope, but not sleeping. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I dared summon solitude to guard us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- By daring hearts is freedom won. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I can't deny, I said, that the plan you propose meets the difficulty in a way that is very daring, and very ingenious, and very new. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Perish the daring thought that any smaller creation should come between! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I was only angry, my dear--I may say outrageous--with the _Independent_ people for daring to insert it; that's all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Where I came from if a man dares to say a word in favor of the Union we hang him to a limb of the first tree we come to. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We shall see who it is dares strike the mighty Tal Hajus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Who dares insult me by proposing such a thing? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Who dares to arrest a Knight of the Temple of Zion, within the girth of his own Preceptory, and in the presence of the Grand Master? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Who dares say nay, I say he lieth. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
整理:希欧多尔