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 daring ['dɛrɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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  1. Never before have they been so inspired and so daring as at present.
    从来没有看见他们像现在这样精神振奋,意气风发。
  2. The daring exploits of the parachutists were much admired.
    跳伞者大胆的冒险动作令人赞叹不已.
  3. There are many daring similes in this book.
    这本书中使用了很多明喻。


daring
[ noun ]
  1. a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

  2. <noun.communication>
    he could never refuse a dare
  3. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

  4. <noun.attribute>
    the proposal required great boldness
    the plan required great hardiness of heart
[ adj ]
  1. disposed to venture or take risks

  2. <adj.all>
    audacious visions of the total conquest of space
    an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
    the most daring of contemporary fiction writers
    a venturesome investor
    a venturous spirit
  3. radically new or original

  4. <adj.all>
    an avant-garde theater piece


Dare \Dare\ (d[^a]r), v. i. [imp. {Durst} (d[^u]rst) or {Dared}
(d[^a]rd); p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] [OE. I
dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare,
imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta,
gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar,
gada['u]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s
bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.]
To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be
bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more
is none. --Shak.

Why then did not the ministers use their new law?
Bacause they durst not, because they could not.
--Macaulay.

Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion.
--Thackeray.

The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood,
because a partisan was more ready to dare without
asking why. --Jowett
(Thu?yd.).

Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense,
so that the third person is he dare, but the form he
dares is now often used, and will probably displace the
obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect
as he shalls or he cans. --Skeat.

The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead).
--P. Plowman.

You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden.

The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak.

Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed
Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep.
--Beau. & Fl.

Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes
the old form dare is found for durst or dared.


Dare \Dare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Daring}.]
1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture
to do or to undertake.

What high concentration of steady feeling makes men
dare every thing and do anything? --Bagehot.

To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
--The Century.

2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

Time, I dare thee to discover
Such a youth and such a lover. --Dryden.


Daring \Dar"ing\, a.
Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. --
{Dar"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Dar"ing*ness}, n.


Daring \Dar"ing\, n.
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

  1. It is the most radical, daring economic reform program ever attempted in Eastern Europe.
  2. Through the years, Superman's daring rescues and battles against evil have been chronicled in hundreds of newspaper funny pages, a radio serial, a TV series and movies.
  3. He was renowned for his daring. "However many times you'd seen him, it was probably the most dangerously thrilling moment you'd seen on any stage," actor Jeremy Brett said Tuesday.
  4. The government has recovered more gold, jade and stone artifacts that were stolen from the National Museum of Archaeology in a daring Christmas Day robbery in 1985, an official said.
  5. Last week, Turkey's National Security Council met in Ankara to discuss the crisis in the southeast, home to half of Turkey's Kurds and scene of increasingly daring attacks by guerrillas seeking an independent Kurdistan.
  6. Tharp, herself a virtuoso with a pugnacious and Cagney-ish air to her most daring feats, loves bravura.
  7. One was an in-store fashion boutique aimed at teen-age girls; some Sears insiders thought the boutique too daring and young women customers too fickle to provide a market base.
  8. Dealers were daring to contemplate that the next cut will come on the morning of Friday the 13th. Sharp volatility in the trading of the December short sterling contract yesterday implied that dealers were divided over the scale of the cut.
  9. In this case, the shrinking man is a daring but drunken test pilot played by Dennis Quaid and the unwitting recipient is a Walter Mitty-like supermarket clerk played by Short.
  10. One gets the feeling both Ben's and Ireland's searches for selfhood are little more than pegs upon which the author hangs daring midnight raids and heroic slogs across the bogs.
  11. The result is daring, fascinating and never dull.
  12. A correspondent who is not a leading man, but who is a digger and has imagination and stamina, is tempted to adorn a tell story with daring and unsupported conjectures.
  13. Such policies have been proclaimed in the past by the government, but have not so far delivered results. The prime minister also attacked Mr Fyodorov for daring to set conditions for joining his government.
  14. She was the bold model with the tight little frame and steady, daring gaze whose depiction in Manet's Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe revolutionised European nude painting and outraged the 19th century art world.
  15. Five years ago: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off into orbit in pursuit of two wayward satellites that the astronauts would retrieve in a daring salvage mission.
  16. Critical response in England has ranged from praise for the filmmakers' daring, to disapproval that a seamy story is being dredged up again, especially after Profumo's prolonged penance as a charity worker in the slums of London.
  17. Universal Pictures, the company's motion picture subsidiary, is known as one of Hollywood's more daring studios.
  18. And for a daring improvisor with a disarmingly unpretentious rapport with his audience, a club setting suits him fine.
  19. Five years and 22,000 man-hours later, the Voyager appears to be poised finally to take off on its daring flight sometime this weekend.
  20. And after two decades of pushing increasingly more daring and suggestive ads, Madison Avenue executives are encouraging everybody to get dressed again.
  21. But there may be a window that will close if we do not act with imagination and daring.
  22. You're romantic, daring, like adventure and have a good appreciation for the many advantages automobiles have to offer.
  23. "It gave people more daring and more of a willingness to sacrifice.
  24. But all this is also preamble. The most daring feature of Tom Smith's excellent Greenwich production is how uncharming and unsympathetic it makes Sir Hugo from the first.
  25. Also in Saudi Arabia, three Britons on Thursday said their fear of Iraq sustained them during their daring escape.
  26. But it is Mr. Caron who has made the far more absorbing film, and he has provided a stunning showcase for Michael Keaton, who is turning out to be one of the most daring actors going.
  27. In 1988, Wang and other intellectuals founded a journal called "The New Enlightenment" that published daring, probing essays on subjects such as alienation in a socialist society.
  28. A liberal travel law, coupled with a decision not to prosecute those who leave and then decide to return, would largely eliminate the need for daring escapes across the border.
  29. There were no risks of any kind; never a hint of insecurity but no flashes of inspirational daring either. The support provided by the Philharmonia was always vigilant.
  30. No, in a daring departure from precedent, the burglars here are kidnappers and they are a trio.
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