gumption

单词gumption

基本解释

n.: 机智；老练；精明；勇气
网络: 进取心；能干；魄力

权威解释

• 机智；老练；精明:

  the intelligence needed to know what to do in a particular situation

• 勇气；胆力；决心:

  courage and determination

英汉解释

• 〔工〕颜料调和法;调和颜料的溶剂;〔教〕进取精神;主动性

• 调合颜料的溶剂

• 事业心,进取精神

• 〔口语〕精明能干,通晓事理

• 进取心

同义词

n.common sensesensehorse senseshrewdnesspracticality

反义词

n.stupidity

例句

• "You"ve got no more gumption than a bump on a log, " she said. "Get out in the kitchen and help Doris do those dirty dishes. "

  “你的积极性不比呆子强，”她说。“出去，到厨房帮多丽丝洗那些脏盘子去。”

• My sister Doris, though two years younger than I, had enough gumption for a dozen people.

  我妹妹多丽丝虽然比我小两岁，但是她的积极性足够十二个人使用。

• Dick was always diffident when it came to staff matters, and not been able to summon up the gumption to bang the table.

  遇到手下的人事问题时，迪克总是缺乏信心。他不能拿出气概，一锤定音。

• I wish I had a glass of beer; but I can"t get up the gumption to go down to the village an" get it.

  天呐，我真想喝一杯啤酒，可又鼓不起劲下村子里去。

• With a little less gumption and a lot less gearing, "Dubai is plausible" .

  少了点智慧，少了点自主，迪拜不过是巧舌如簧。

• Do societies dominated by a consumer mentality have the political gumption anymore to save and sacrifice for the longer term?

  由消费者心理支配的社会能否有这种政治智慧，为了长远目标而储蓄并作出牺牲呢？

• My plan, goal and gumption, with courage and strength in the heart make me keep on learning and go forward.

  我的心中充满勇气和力量，我有计划、有目标，有颗进取心，每天都在学习都在进步。

• He"s a nice enough lad, but he doesn"t seem to have much gumption.

  他是个不错的小伙子，但好像没有什麽进取心。

• Fang demonstrated a little more gumption only once, when Lucius Malfoy visited Hagrid"s cabin. Then Fang growled menacingly.

  牙牙唯一一次展现点儿气概的时候是卢修斯•马尔福驾临小屋那一回，它凶狠地朝那家伙狂吠。

• Barnes, like Bell, ranks among the few players in the NBA with the gumption to get in Kobe"s face.

  巴恩斯和贝尔一样，位列少数积极向科比学习，和他一样有进取心的联盟球员中。