- 1厚臉皮的膽量（英語裡有時是稱讚；中文「厚臉皮」多半是罵人）
Chutzpah is a word that English borrowed, especially American English, for a special kind of nerve: the confidence to do something cheeky or even a little rude, often toward someone above you — and the speaker rather likes it. It is not quiet courage in the dark, and it is not only “bravery.” If a student tells the head teacher that the exam was unfair, that can be chutzpah. Informal, a bit colourful, sometimes said with a grin. Tone matters: said it is almost a compliment; said it is closer to “what a cheek.” In Chinese, 厚臉皮 is close in shape but usually a ; chutzpah can be praise. You may also see the spelling hutzpah. Not a word for a very stiff formal essay unless you want that flavour on purpose.
組成Does not split in English. From Yiddish חוצפּה (khutspe), from Aramaic חוּצְפָּא (ḥuṣpā, audacity, boldness), from a root meaning to be impudent. Into English around 1890–95.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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。
chutzpahnoun/ˈxʊts.pə/
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informalNearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.
- If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
- But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。