| 词汇 | bravado |
| 释义 | bravado noun[ U ] uk /brəˈvɑː.dəʊ/ us /brəˈvɑː.doʊ/ courage that you show, especially by doing something unnecessary and dangerous, to make people admire you: act of bravado It was an act of bravado to tell his boss to resign. These are young men full of bravado. Many actors are an odd mixture of humility and bravado. This was an act of bravado that almost went horribly wrong. It was foolish bravado to challenge him but she didn't care. There seems to be an element of bravado involved in the trade. Doing things without fear or proper thought act of bravado carpe diem daredevil desperado devil-may-care hotheadedness impetuosity impetuous impetuously impetuousness precipitancy precipitant precipitate precipitately precipitation rashness reckless trigger-happy unafraid with no thought for somethingidiom bravado | American Dictionarybravado noun[ U ] us/brəˈvɑ·doʊ/ a show of bravery, esp. when unnecessary and dangerous, to make people admire you Examples of bravadobravado Now, on turning to the animals' performances, leave aside verbalizations, bravado, and consciousness. The bravado of a young man now has to become an older man living with the courage of his convictions. But his bravado, while it leads us down many intriguing and unusual pathways, evaporates under the weight of the urban variable. What we see instead is genuine bravado as the researchers plunge into the struggle to extract meaning from the cross-national data. Their fiery speeches, their ' secret ' gatherings so easily penetrated by informers, their brandishing of home-made pikes can also be read as theatre, bravado, coat-trailing. Regardless of the depth of his friendships, he had a measured sense of the boundaries between the bravado of patrollers' discourse and the reality of their acts of violence. Youth who claimed to have little emotional reaction to their involvement in severe maltreatment may also have been displaying the "tough" bravado common among externalizing youth. The bravado becomes more and more what it perhaps had always been - a mask put on for his father until he could no longer disguise his vulnerability and failure. In our focus groups, gangs were revered by boys as young as 11 and 12 who talked of their flashy dress style and displays of bravado and wealth. Such cynics saw honour as a matter of rank and preferment, to be gained by noisy shows of loyalty and the traditional swaggering bravado of the braggart soldier. Communists always announced their commitment with bravado. Having discovered that a few of them are common has only given us a false sense of bravado about our ability to predict and control the future. Who are we to suppress his bravado? Bravado or insouciance was another reaction, verging on the blasphemous. Within local communities, qiangqin developed its own set of rationales, its own 'ceremonies' and its own ethos, one based on notions of masculine bravado and prowess (fengliu). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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