核心畫面

Picture someone whose hands are shaking — and who steps forward anyway. Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the strength that shows up while the fear is still there. Take the fear out of the picture and the word has nothing to describe.

可以想成:一個人手還在抖,但腳往前跨了出去。courage 不是「不害怕」,而是害怕還在的時候,仍然撐住自己去做那件更多收起可以想成:一個人手還在抖,但腳往前跨了出去。courage 不是「不害怕」,而是害怕還在的時候,仍然撐住自己去做那件事的那股力量。把恐懼從畫面裡拿掉,這個字就沒有東西可以形容了——所以英文說 courage 的時候,前提通常是那件事真的令人害怕。

From the picture

堅持自己相信的事

同一股力量,威脅換成了人:不是危險逼近,而是身邊的人都不同意,你還是照著自己相信的去說、去做。

strength to stand by beliefs · noun · B2

The strength to keep saying or doing what you believe is right, even when others do not agree.

堅持信念的勇氣

Also in this word

strength to face danger · noun · B2

The strength to do something difficult or dangerous even when you feel afraid.

勇氣

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

couragenoun/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

    • A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    • There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
  • 2

    The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.

    • He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
    • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
  • 3

    The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal; moral fortitude.

    • “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
    • I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

courageverb/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo encourage.

    • And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
    • Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, to courage him, to stir him up,

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。