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单词 daring
释义
daring
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nadj

To be daring is to be bold, adventurous, and a little nervy. It’s a quality possessed by people who tend to take risks. If someone says, “I dare you,” and you always do, you’re a daring person.
If you're daring, you dare to do things that are risky and even dangerous. A daring mountain climber goes for the top of Mount Everest, and a daring policeman enters the scariest houses to catch a crook. In comics and movies, superheroes are daring. Even quitting your job to start your own business is daring. The seafarers who first traveled across the globe were daring. Daring people are brave, and daring adventures are pretty exciting.
WORD FAMILY
daring: daringest, daringly, darings+/dare: dared, dares, daring
USAGE EXAMPLES
This happens often, but instead of just audio, Jarmusch scribbles Paterson’s verses across the screen, daring us to really consider the words.
Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016)
Call it moviegoers hungry for a sassy robot and some daring acts of galactic rebellion.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 26, 2016)
And their most daring harmonic adventures—for example, the otherworldly modulations in the “Confiteor” of the B-Minor Mass—look ahead to Wagner, even to Schoenberg.
The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016)
1n a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
Syn|Hyper
dare
challenge
a call to engage in a contest or fight
2n the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper
boldness, hardihood, hardiness
timidity, timorousness
fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities
adventurousness, venturesomeness
the trait of being adventurous
daredevilry, daredeviltry
boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior
audaciousness, audacity, temerity
fearless daring
brazenness, shamelessness
behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame
fearlessness
the trait of feeling no fear
3adj disposed to venture or take risks
the most daring of contemporary fiction writers
Syn
audacious, venturesome, venturous
adventuresome, adventurous
willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
4adj radically new or original
Syn
avant-garde
original
being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
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