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Gumption is the mix of sense and backbone that makes you see what needs doing and then do it, without waiting to be pushed.
Gumptiongumption is指的是 the mix of sense and backbone那種判斷力和膽識 that makes you see讓你看出 what needs doing該做什麼 and then do it然後就去做 without waiting to be pushed不用等別人推一把
It is informal, a little old-fashioned or folksy — more at home in American talk and older British talk than in young city slang. “She had the gumption to ask for more pay.” It sits near guts, drive, and common sense, though actually it is milder than guts: less about danger, more about initiative and not being helpless.
It它 is是 informal口語 a little old-fashioned or folksy有點老派或鄉土味 more at home in American talk and older British talk在美式英語和比較老派的英式英語裡更常見 than in young city slang比在年輕都市俚語裡 "She had the gumption to ask for more pay."「She had the gumption to ask for more pay」 It它 sits near跟 guts, drive, and common senseguts、drive、common sense意思相近 though actually不過其實 it is milder than guts它比guts更溫和 less about danger比較不是關於冒險 more about initiative and not being helpless比較是關於主動出擊、不無助
You can tell someone they have no gumption if they freeze, complain, and never start. It is praise when they do start.
if如果 they freeze, complain, and never start他們愣住、抱怨、然後從不開始做 you你 can tell someone可以說某人 they have no gumption沒有gumption。 when they do start如果他們真的開始做了 it它 is是 praise一種讚美
Not a school-textbook word; you meet it in stories and in spoken English.
Not a school-textbook word這不是課本上的詞; you meet it你會遇到它 in stories and in spoken English在故事和口說英語裡
組成Borrowed from Scots gumption, “common sense, shrewdness, drive.” Where Scots got it is unknown. It may connect with older words meaning “to pay attention.”
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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。
gumptionnoun/ˈɡʌmpʃən/
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Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
- Gumption, or rum gumption, docility, comprehenſion, capacity.
- When I see a man who has a good business, sufficient to support his family respectably, neglecting his affairs, and running into debt, in order to obtain a political office, I fancy that, whatever may be his talents, he is not burdened with gumption. […] When I see a man attending diligently to his own concerns, sending his children to school, paying his debts, and keeping clear of law suits, quarrels, and politics, I set him down as a man possessing a reasonable share of gumption.
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Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
- "You've got a hard way of looking at things, Scarlett," he said. "But you think Hugh over. You could go far and do worse. I think his honesty and his willingness will outweigh his lack of gumption. Scarlett did not answer, for she did not want to be too rude. But to her mind there were few, if any, qualities that outweighed gumption.
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Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
- A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He's at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes. That's gumption.
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。