- 1虛張聲勢、逞強（裝出來的勇敢；不是真的膽量）
A show of courage and confidence that is put on for other people to see. The key idea is that it is performance: the person may be underneath, or may simply be safe and pretending the situation is dangerous. It is an uncountable noun, and it usually appears in a few fixed shapes — 'an act of bravado', 'a piece of bravado', 'with a show of bravado', 'empty bravado', 'youthful bravado', and very often 'more bravado than…' (as in 'more bravado than sense'). The tone is critical but rarely cruel; it can even be about someone young who is trying to look tough. Journalists use it a lot for politicians and for people who talk big about a fight they cannot win. Notice that bravado is nearly always about the display — real courage that no one sees is never called bravado.
組成From French bravade, from Italian bravata, from the verb bravare 'to brag, to boast', from bravo. The -ado ending is the Spanish/Italian-flavoured noun ending English also borrowed in words like 'desperado'.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bravadonoun/bɹɑˈvɑdoʊ/
- 1
A swaggering show of defiance or courage.
- The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.
- For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by−and−by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.
- 2
A superficial show of courage.
- 3
obsoleteA swaggerer; a braggart.
bravadoverb/bɹɑˈvɑdoʊ/
- 1
obsoleteTo swagger; to brag.
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