Fortitude is the quiet strength you show when life is hurting you — pain, illness, money trouble, a long stretch of bad news — and you keep going without falling apart. It is not the loud kind of courage, like running into a fire. It is more like staying steady when you would rather give up.

Fortitude is the quiet strength you showFortitude 是你展現出來的那種低調的力量，when life is hurting you在生活正在傷害你的時候——— pain, illness, money trouble, a long stretch of bad news —疼痛、生病、錢的問題、一連串壞消息——and you keep going without falling apart而你還是撐下去，沒有崩潰。 It is not the loud kind of courage它不是那種張揚的勇氣，like running into a fire像衝進火場那樣。 It is more like staying steady它比較像是保持穩定，when you would rather give up在你其實很想放棄的時候。

You will meet it in books, speeches, and school writing more than in everyday chat; in ordinary talk people usually say bravery, strength, or just that someone is hanging on. People do stretch it to mean any courage, though actually the old heart of the word is strength, and English now uses it especially for strength in suffering.

You will meet it in books, speeches, and school writing你會在書、演講、學校作文裡遇到它，more than in everyday chat比在日常聊天裡更常見；in ordinary talk people usually say bravery, strength, or just that someone is hanging on平常講話，人們通常會說 bravery（勇敢）、strength（力量），或就只是說某人正撐著。 People do stretch it to mean any courage人們確實會把它延伸來指任何勇氣，though actually the old heart of the word is strength不過其實這個字最早的核心意思是力量，and English now uses it especially for strength in suffering而現在英文特別用它來指受苦時的那種力量。