mettle
mettle 英 [ˈmetl] 美 [ˈmɛtl]
n. 勇气；气质；耐力
名词复数:mettles
- Mettle is the courage to carry on. If someone wants to "test your mettle," they want to see if you have the heart to follow through when the going gets tough.
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- n. 勇气；气质；耐力
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1. But as the crowd roared for the Italian, Li showed her mettle and held firm.
然而，当观众为意大利人呐喊时，李娜展现了她的勇气，稳住了阵脚。
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2. My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George. This is a story about a boy who decides to live in the woods, to test his mettle and do something different.
珍·克雷黑德·乔治所写的《山居岁月》——故事所写的是一个男孩决定住在丛林里来测试他的勇气，做些不同凡响的事情。
- mettle (n.) 1580s, variant spelling of metal, both forms used interchangeably (by Shakespeare and others) in the literal sense and in the figurative one of "stuff of which a person is made" (1550s) until the spellings and senses diverged early 18c.
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