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To embolden someone is to give them more courage — to make them braver, or more ready to act. A teacher’s kind words can embolden a shy student. A win can embolden a team to try something bigger. News writers also use it when a group becomes bolder after good news, and though actually there can be a warning in that: “emboldened” sometimes means they now dare to do something other people may not like. The core is still courage, not size and not the look of letters on a page. Everyday speech often just says “give someone courage” or “make someone braver.”
使壯膽;給人勇氣
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。
emboldenverb/ɛmˈbəʊld(ə)n/
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To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
- Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.
- I haue heard many ſuch things: miſerable comforters are ye all. Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou anſwereſt?
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mediapublishingtypographyTo format (text) in boldface.
- This note introduces several additional features of LATEX: […] ▪ The use of text style commands, including the \emph command to emphasize text, the \textbf command to embolden text, and the \texttt command to produce typewriter style text.
- The [HTML] tags <p></p> indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: <em></em> for emphasis (typically italics), <u></u> for underline and <strong></strong> to embolden text.
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。