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spunk是什么意思，spunk怎么读

spunk基本信息

读法：英 [spʌŋk] 美

释义：

  • n. 勇气；精神；引火柴；（苏格兰）怒意
  • vt. 鼓起勇气
  • vi. （苏格兰）发怒

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    星级词汇：★

    英英释义

    Noun:

  • material for starting a fire
  • the courage to carry on;"he kept fighting on pure spunk"
    "you haven"t got the heart for baseball"

    • 中英词源

    spunk 勇气，胆量WwW.wENTIyI.coM

    词源不确定，可能鼻音化自 spark,火花，火星。引申比喻义勇气，胆量。

    spunk (n.)
    1530s, "a spark," Scottish, from Gaelic spong "tinder, pith, sponge," from Latin spongia (see sponge (n.)). The sense of "courage, pluck, mettle" is first attested 1773. A similar sense evolution took place in cognate Irish sponnc "sponge, tinder, spark; courage, spunk." Vulgar slang sense of "seminal fluid" is recorded from c. 1888.

    词态变化

    权威造句

    1. I admired her independ-ence and her spunk.
    我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。

    来自柯林斯例句

    2. After his death, the soldier was cited for spunk.
    那位士兵死后因作战勇敢而受到表彰.

    来自《简明英汉词典》

    3. Show some spunk . Quit pretending you"re being abused.
    慷慷慨慨! 甭装可怜虫!

    来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

    4. I admired her independence and her spunk.
    我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。

    来自辞典例句

    5. In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one spunk.
    在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。

    来自辞典例句

    近反义词

  • get one"s spunk up 发怒

    • 相似短语

  • spunk out 被揭穿, 被人晓得失败
  • spunk up 打起精神
  • have plenty of spunk 精神焕发, 勇气十足

    • 单词分析

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    记忆方法

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