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Derring-do is a playful, old-fashioned name for very brave acts — the kind you get in adventure stories, with swords, daring rescues, and heroes who leap before they look. People almost always use it with a smile. You would not use it about a in a serious news report; you would use it about a film, a comic, or a friend who is showing off a little. The strange spelling is part of the joke: it looks like old story-English on purpose. It started as daring to do, and a poet long ago read those words the wrong way, as a noun, and the noun stuck. Though actually, it is not the word for quiet daily bravery, like telling the truth. It leans toward , storybook courage.
英勇事蹟（帶點舊冒險故事、幽默的口氣）
組成From Middle English daring (to) do. The poet Edmund Spenser misread it as a noun, and that reading stuck.
同家族的字
- daringthis phrase began as daring to do; a poet later read it as a noun
原始詞典資料2 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。
derring-donoun/ˌdɛɹɪŋˈduː/
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Valiant deeds in desperate times.
- With a cry of sheer derring-do, the climber leapt across the chasm.
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Brave and adventurous (albeit often reckless) actions.
- Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
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。