单词 | mettle |
释义 | met·tle I. 1. archaic 2. < a girl of mettle — Norman MacCaig > < but that poetry might be of finer mettle than prose he never apparently dreamed — S.T.Williams > 3. < those who try their mettle against the sea — Walter Hayward > < trucks had proved their mettle in army transport — Pioneer & Pacemaker > < spoke in Spanish later on, but at first tried my mettle by using only Yaqui — E.H.Spicer > Synonyms: see courage • - on one's mettle II. archaic Scotland < an honest and a mettle gentleman — R.L.Stevenson > |
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