gumption
gumption 英 [ˈgʌmpʃn] 美 [ˈɡʌmpʃən]
n. 进取心；气概；精力
名词复数:gumptions
- If you have gumption, you have guts. People with gumption are determined and full of courage — and common sense, too.
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- n. 进取心；气概；精力
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1. In part, that's because the economic power of fuhyo — rumor — is a force that even gumption and initiative can't combat.
从某种意义上来说，这是因为有害谣言的经济破坏力是进取心和主动性都无法压倒的。
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2. A teacher saw her gumption and mentored her.
一位老师看她很有进取心，给她进行辅导。
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3. Those like me who didn't have the gumption to do the same were left to stand or sit on the floor.
其他和我一样，没有“进取心”的人们都拉在了后面，只能站或坐在地上。
- gumption (n.) 1719, originally Scottish, "common sense, shrewdness, acuteness of practical understanding," also "drive, initiative," possibly connected with Middle English gome "attention, heed," from Old Norse gaumr "heed, attention." Sense of "initiative" is first recorded 1812. Related: Gumptious (adj.), attested from 1823.
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