| 单词 | venture |
| 释义 | ven·ture I. transitive verb 1. a. b. < venture a ship in the coastal trade > < ventured more than he could afford on speculative stocks > 2. a. < a band of Puritans … ventured in 1620 a settlement at Plymouth — Stringfellow Barr > < unwilling to venture the elements in such a storm > b. archaic 3. < ventured a hint of doubt — H.J.Laski > < upon the irresponsible taxation he does venture to speak plainly — G.G.Coulton > < I venture to say that 5000 people were present > intransitive verb < explorers by sea, venturing uneasily northward along the shores in pygmy galleons — American Guide Series: California > < strikebreakers were compelled to remain in the shops for weeks before venturing to their homes — American Guide Series: Delaware > < too old to venture on a new way of life > Synonyms: < venture one's capital > and it may suggest a proceeding that calls for caution or an offering liable to rejection or contradiction < hazardous to approach too near to the snow or venture beneath it — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > < I venture to predict — F.D.Roosevelt > hazard may occasionally more strongly suggest utter chance, as of the turn of a card or spin of a wheel, as a determining factor, and consequently suggest more uncertainty and less calculation than venture < able young men have been willing to hazard their chances of professional advancement in order to engage in academic experiments — G.F.Whicher > risk may stress the fact of danger of loss, damage, or defeat without undue implication of reasons, motives, degrees of danger < Poland did not hesitate … to risk all the progress she had made — Sir Winston Churchill > < not risking a landing because of the fierce aspect of the natives — V.G.Heiser > chance may suggest more inclination to trust to luck and less considering or reckoning. endanger, imperil, and jeopardize heighten notions of exposure to danger. imperil may occasionally suggest exposure to greater or inseparable danger and may be preferred in figurative uses < floods endangering the building in 1866, Fort Lyon was moved up the river — L.R.Hafen > < kings in Europe were sometimes shot at by passersby, there being hardly a monarch who had not been so imperiled — G.B.Shaw > jeopardize may be somewhat stronger and imply even chances of success or failure, preservation or loss, or suggest greater imminence of danger or inexorability of decision < to settle for merely another temporary respite would surely jeopardize the future security of all the world — H.S.Truman > II. 1. obsolete 2. a. < a trading venture > < took a venture in oil > b. < his venture into honest living > < this venture in plain speaking cost us dear > c. 3. < lost his first venture in the China trade > usually < my ventures are not in one bottom trusted — Shakespeare > 4. dialect Britain < what in the world wide put venture into you that made you go face the dog — Augusta Gregory > • - at a venture |
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