| 单词 | audaciously |
| 释义 | audaciously (once / 10341 pages) adv If you do something audaciously, you do it in a way that's bold and possibly a bit reckless. A party guest might audaciously grab all the candy from a piñata without worrying what anyone thinks. When you take any kind of risk, you act audaciously: it's possible to audaciously dive off a cliff into a lake, or audaciously take the last piece of pie. If someone speaks audaciously, they say exactly what they're thinking, no matter the reaction. Audaciously comes from the Middle French audace, "boldness," with its Latin root, audax, which means both "daring" and "rash or foolhardy." WORD FAMILYaudacious: audaciously, audaciousness+/audacity: audacious, audacities USAGE EXAMPLESNew Zealand’s economic upswing began in the mid-1980s under an audaciously reforming Labour government that was, in the words of Mr Key, “amazingly right-wing”. Economist(Dec 05, 2016) Or to risk the terrible wrath of chefs by audaciously suggesting that they might rustle up a palatable ham omelette. The Guardian(Nov 05, 2016) Equally ruffled, though, will be those who are anti-monarchy, for The Crown audaciously portrays the Windsors as human beings. The Guardian(Nov 02, 2016) adv in an audacious manner an idea so daring and yet so audaciously tempting that a shiver of excitement quivered through him |
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