| 单词 | adventurous |
| 释义 | ad·ven·tur·ous 1. < Caesar, the most skillful and prudent of generals, was yet as adventurous as a knight-errant — J.A.Froude > < encouraged adventurous Portuguese captains to push out into the Atlantic — G.C.Sellery > 2. < an adventurous period of river history > < my most adventurous whaling voyage up to that time — H.A.Chippendale > < regions where life is still somewhat adventurous > Synonyms: < the Dyaks … ferocious and adventurous, who had no equals in daring either in battles with rivers or in battles with enemies — Agnes N. Keith > < to be adventurous — to explore and discover in life as in art — Malcolm Cowley > < Admiral Byrd's adventuresome expeditions > < adventuresome, I sent my herald thought into a wilderness — John Keats > venturesome and venturous, the latter now somewhat uncommon, may imply greater willingness to chance danger or risk < in 1919 Alcock and Brown undertook the first and highly venturesome crossing of the Atlantic by air — Manchester Guardian > < a faint pathway blazed through the wilderness by venturesome scouts and trappers from 1827 on — American Guide Series: California > < among these rocks that venturous feet could reach — William Wordsworth > < emancipation had some interest for venturous spirits — T.S.Eliot > daring may indicate fearlessness or boldness in greater dangers or most extreme ventures < a daring and crafty captain, as careless of his own life as of other folk's — Charles Kingsley > < daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night — Charles Dickens > daredevil may imply the ostentatious, sensational, or bizarre in courting uncommon danger < daredevil feats sometimes performed in the sperm-whale fishery — Herman Melville > temerarious, foolhardy, reckless, and rash are mainly uncomplimentary. temerarious, relatively uncommon in situations involving physical danger, may refer to actions or efforts ill-advised and overambitious < summaries … more temerarious and experimental than the body of the book — George Saintsbury > foolhardy usually describes the needless tempting or incurring of unnecessary dangers with virtually no chance of success < the perfectly foolhardy feat of swimming the flood — Sinclair Lewis > reckless may apply to lack of concern about or consideration of the consequences of probable disaster and defeat < he had frightfully dissipated his little capital. How wild and reckless he had been — W.M.Thackeray > < a reckless, devil-may-care individual who is ready for trouble, even looking for it, his advent into town is usually heralded by pistol shots and the splintering of glass — American Guide Series: Arizona > rash indicates imprudent haste and lack of thought < like a rash exorcist, I was appalled by the spirit I had raised — L.P.Smith > < is it true that you were rash enough, mad enough, to speak to these men about murdering Keegan? — Anthony Trollope > |
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