喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the moment someone sees the risky thing and steps toward it instead of away. The step is taken on purpose, with eyes open — that is what daring holds. Everything else on this page is that same step, seen from a different angle: sometimes the person taking it, sometimes the thing they did, sometimes the quality that made them do it.

可以想成這樣一個瞬間：有件事明顯有風險，而一個人看見了，卻往它那邊走了一步。重點是那一步是自己選的，眼睛是睜開的。這…更多收起可以想成這樣一個瞬間：有件事明顯有風險，而一個人看見了，卻往它那邊走了一步。重點是那一步是自己選的，眼睛是睜開的。這個字整頁的意思，都可以看成同一步從不同角度看：有時候看的是走那一步的人，有時候是他做出來的那件事，有時候是讓他走出去的那股勁。

From the word’s history

The evidence packet records daring as the present participle and gerund of the verb dare. That fits the picture: the adjective is someone caught in the middle of daring, and the noun is that same daring held still and named.

資料裡記著 daring 是動詞 dare（敢）的現在分詞和動名詞形式。這條線索跟畫面對得上：形容詞是「正在敢」的那個樣子，名詞則是把那股敢停下來、給它一個名字。

evidence packet: Wiktionary form-of relation — daring = present participle and gerund of dare (wikt:daring:verb:0)

Three branches

敢去冒險的人與行動

這一族就是核心畫面本身：風險是真的，那一步也是真的。

adjective · B2

Brave enough to do things that could go badly wrong; or, said about an action or a plan, full of risk and needing that kind of courage.

大膽的；勇於冒險的

那股敢的勁（名詞）

把那一步背後的力氣抽出來，當成一樣可以擁有、可以被稱讚的東西。

noun · C1

The kind of courage that makes a person willing to take risks.

膽識；敢冒險的膽量

大膽到讓人吃一驚的新樣子

那一步還在，只是風險換了地方：不是身體會受傷，而是別人會怎麼看你。

adjective · B2

So new or so unlike what people expect that it surprises them and may even shock them. It is used most about design, clothes, art and ideas.

大膽新奇的；前衛的

原始詞典資料5 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。

daringadj/ˈdɛə.ɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.

    • “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”
  • 2

    Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.

    • […]By this scimitar, That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince That won three fields of Sultan Solyman, I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, To win thee, lady. […]
  • 3

    Racy; sexually provocative.

    • Just what I wanted, seeing my mom in a daring bikini—or worse yet, my being in one. I had the perfect drawer I could bury it in.

daringnoun/ˈdɛə.ɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    Boldness.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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