temerity
temerity 英 [təˈmerəti] 美 [təˈmɛrɪti]
n. 鲁莽，冒失；蛮勇
名词复数:temerities
- Use the noun temerity to mean the quality of being unafraid of danger or punishment. If you have the temerity to jump off the bridge even after hearing about the risk of instant death, you truly are a nutcase.
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- n. 鲁莽，冒失；蛮勇
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1. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and th4 only sign of life about the place was the Negro man-a young man then--going in and out with a market basket.
有少数几位妇女竟冒冒失失地去访问过她，但都吃了闭门羹。 她居处周围唯一的生命迹象就是那个黑人男子拎着一个篮子出出进进，当年他还是个青年。
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2. Once, “if a student or faculty member had the temerity to bring a grievance to court, is was likely to be bounced out in short order.”
忆往昔，“如果学生或教工鲁莽行事，起诉到法庭，案件可能很快就会驳回。”
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3. This gives people the temerity to ask me, nearly every day: Who takes care of your kids?
这就让有些人几乎每天都会蛮横的问我：那谁照顾你的孩子呢？
- 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" (source also of 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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