moxie
英 ['m?ks?]
美['mɑksi]
- n. 精力；勇氣
暢通詞匯
中文詞源
moxie 勇氣，力量
來自Moxie,一種開創于1876 年的美國保健品飲料商標，其廣告詞為”build up your nerve”.該 詞本身可能來自北美印第安某植物名。后來引申詞義勇氣，力量等。
英文詞源
- moxie (n.)
- "courage," 1930, from Moxie, brand name of a bitter, non-alcoholic drink, 1885, perhaps as far back as 1876 as the name of a patent medicine advertised to "build up your nerve;" despite legendary origin stories put out by the company that made it, it is perhaps ultimately from a New England Indian word (it figures in river and lake names in Maine, where it is apparently from Abenaki and means "dark water"). Much-imitated in its day; in 1917 the Moxie Company won an infringement suit against a competitor's beverage marketed as "Proxie."
雙語例句
- 1. In the museum, we saw the famous Moxie double - edged sword.
- 在博物館里, 我們看見了那柄有名的莫邪寶劍.
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- 2. Come on. Show some moxie!
- 來吧, 拿出點勇氣來!
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- 3. His prose has moxie, though it rushes and stumbles from a pent - up surge ( Patricia Hampl )
- 雖然他的散文由于壓抑的激情時而文思流暢時而晦澀不通, 但仍充滿活力 ( 帕特里西亞·漢普爾 )
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- 4. He added that Sun has played professionally and that " he's got a lot of moxie. "
- “ 他又補充說,孫悅打的很專業, ” 他有充沛的精力.
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