• n. 魯莽，冒失；蠻勇

來自拉丁語 temere,盲目，沖動，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 ‘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."

1. He had the temerity to call me a liar!

他竟敢說我撒謊！

來自《權威詞典》

2. He had the temerity to call me a liar.

他竟膽敢說我撒謊.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Tins took some temerity, but it was fruitless.

這件事做得有點莽撞, 但結果還是無用.

來自辭典例句