temerity

英 [tə'merəti] 美 [tə'mɛrəti]

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※ 提供单词"temerity"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

temerity 鲁莽，冒失

来自拉丁语 temere,盲目，冲动，鲁莽，来自 PIE*teme,黑暗，词源同 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 ‘acting 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."

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3. He had the temerity to ask for higher wages after only a day's work.: 只工作了一天,他就蛮不讲理地要求增加工资.

4. He has even had the temerity to invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in defence of his actions.: 他竟然敢搬出马丁·路德·金和马尔科姆·艾克斯的名字来为自己的行为辩解。