喜樂美語
  1. 1堅忍、毅力（受苦或陷入困境時撐住的那股力，不是衝鋒的勇）

    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. 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.

From the word’s history

From Latin fortitudo 'bravery, strength', from fortis 'brave, strong'.

來自拉丁文 fortitūdō（勇氣、力量），源自 fortis「強壯、勇敢」。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin fortitūdō, bravery or strength, from fortis, brave, strong. English took it through Old French and Middle English.

同家族的字

  • fortsame Latin fortis, a strong place
  • fortresssame Latin fortis, a large strong place
  • fortifysame Latin fortis, to make stronger

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

fortitudenoun/ˈfɔː.tɪˌtjuːd/

  • 1

    Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.

    • I am able now (me thinkes) / (Out of a Fortitude of Soule, I feele) / To endure more Miſeries, […]
    • I shall soon have need for all my fortitude, as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.
  • 2

    archaicPhysical strength.

    • The Turke with moſt mighty preparation makes for Cipres. Othello, the fortitude of the place, is beſt knowne to you, […]
    • Hey day! VVhat are all the VVomen of my Family abroad? Is not my Wife come home? Nor my Siſter, nor my Daughter? […] Mercy on us, what can be the meaning of it? Sure the Moon is in all her Fortitudes; […]

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