temerity

英 [t?'mer?ti] 美[t?'m?r?ti]

反義詞

GRE暢通詞匯

temerity 魯莽，冒失

來自拉丁語 temere,盲目，沖動(dòng)，魯莽，來自 PIE*teme,黑暗，詞源同 tenebrous,黑暗的。

temerity: temerity: [15] Someone who behaves with temerity is etymologically acting in the ‘dark’. The word was adapted from Latin temeritās ‘rashness’, a derivative of temere ‘blindly’, hence ‘rashly’. This in turn was formed from an unrecorded *temus ‘darkness’, a relative of tenebrae ‘darkness’, and hence originally denoted ‘a(chǎn)cting in the dark, so that one cannot see’.
temerity (n.): late 14c., from Latin temeritatem (nominative temeritas) "blind chance, accident; rashness, indiscretion, foolhardiness," from temere "by chance, at random; indiscreetly, rashly," related to tenebrae "darkness," from PIE root *teme- "dark" (cognates: Sanskrit tamas- "darkness," tamsrah "dark;" Avestan temah "darkness;" Lithuanian tamsa "darkness," tamsus "dark;" Old Church Slavonic tima "darkness;" Old High German dinstar "dark;" Old Irish temel "darkness"). The connecting notion is "blindly, without foreseeing."

3. He had the temerity to ask for higher wages after only a day's work.: 只工作了一天,他就蠻不講理地要求增加工資.

4. He has even had the temerity to invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in defence of his actions.: 他竟然敢搬出馬丁·路德·金和馬爾科姆·艾克斯的名字來為自己的行為辯解。

5. Tins took some temerity, but it was fruitless.: 這件事做得有點(diǎn)莽撞, 但結(jié)果還是無用.