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单词 derring-do
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derring-do

noun
/ˌderɪŋ ˈduː/
/ˌderɪŋ ˈduː/
[uncountable] (old-fashioned or humorous)
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  1. brave actions, like those in adventure stories
    • tales of derring-do
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Middle English dorryng do ‘daring to do’, used by Chaucer, and, in a passage by Lydgate based on Chaucer's work, misprinted in 16th-cent. editions as derrynge do; this was misinterpreted by Spenser to mean ‘manhood, chivalry’, and subsequently taken up and popularized by Sir Walter Scott.
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