| 单词 | adventure |
| 释义 | ad·ven·ture I. 1. obsolete a. < wished me fair adventure for the year — John Dryden > b. 2. a. chiefly marine insurance b. obsolete 3. a. < an adventure in mountain climbing > < the time had come for drastic changes and bold adventures — Drew Middleton > b. < the spirit of adventure > < adventure was gone from life in Mandalay — F.T.Jesse > < for the sake of the adventure > 4. < I found delightful adventures in the woods — W.B.Yeats > < long-forgotten childhood adventures > < hardly a day passed without its adventures > 5. a. b. II. transitive verb 1. < adventure their capital in foreign trade > < so far had he adventured himself that I began to be afraid there might be no recovery — Hugh McCrae > < it is usual to adventure the very considerable cost of “wildcat” trial wells — W.G.Fearnsides > < adventure himself gingerly into the water — Archibald Marshall > 2. < durst not adventure such unknowen ways — Edmund Spenser > < the last volume I have adventured is a very amusing book — H.J.Laski > < invites unbelievers … to retrace their steps and adventure Christianity — Times Literary Supplement > 3. < adventure an opinion > intransitive verb 1. < leaps at chances and … adventures to the shores washed with the farthest sea — J.L.Lowes > < only a madman would have adventured down the declivity — W.J.Locke > < David there adventuring in the blue, in the Middle Heaven — Mary Austin > 2. < I would adventure for such merchandise — Shakespeare > < wondering why the English theater is so slow to adventure with his last plays — Irish Digest > • ad·ven·ture·ment |
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