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一秒记住雅思核心词：audacious

考研英语外刊阅读 · 公众号 · · 2021-02-26 19:07

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audacious

英 [ɔːˈdeɪʃəs] 美 [ɔːˈdeɪʃəs]

英汉释义

adj. 无畏的；鲁莽的

英英释义

1. ADJ Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something. 大胆的

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记忆方法

1. audaci- + -ous.
2. 【记】发音象Odyssey 奥德塞，古希腊作家荷马史诗。奥德赛非常大胆，著名的特洛伊城木马计就是他设计的；Odyssey是特洛伊战争结束后回家途中大胆冒险的史诗
3. 谐音“all得瑟死”——大胆的
4. （记）au 谐音（傲）+ da 谐音“大”→傲、大→骄傲自大→大胆的

词源记忆

【中文词源】：

来自拉丁词audeo, 勇敢。词义贬义化。

【英语词源】：

1540s, "confident, intrepid," from Middle French audacieux, from audace "boldness," from Latin audacia "daring, boldness, courage," from audax "brave, bold, daring," but more often "bold" in a bad sense, "audacious, rash, foolhardy," from audere "to dare, be bold." Bad sense of "shameless" is attested from 1590s in English. Related: Audaciously.

词根词缀

词根词缀：-acious

【来源及含义】Latin: suffix; forming adjectives; inclined to, given to, tendency to be, abounding in

【同源单词】alliacious, audacious, capaciously, ceracious, difficacious, efficacious

词根词缀：audac-, audaci-

【来源及含义】Latin: dare, be bold

【同源单词】audace, Audaces fortuna iuvat, audacious, audaciously, audaciousness, audacity

词根词缀：-ous, -ious, -eous

【来源及含义】Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

【相关描述】Only a small number of the hundreds of examples are presented because there are just too many to include at this time.

【同源单词】abdominous, abiogenous, ablepharous, abstemious, acanthaceous, acanthocephalous