['metl]['metl]
  • n. 勇气;气质;性格
  • 记忆方法

    词源记忆法
    来自 metal 的拼写变体。后产生词义上的差别。
      noun(名词)
      1. 精神;勇气;才能

    双解例句

    noun(名词)
    1. 精神;勇气;才能

      The team showed/proved its mettle in the final round.

      运动队在最后一轮中展现了他们的拼搏精神。

      The real test of her political mettle came in the May elections.

      五月份的选举是对她政治才能的真正考验。

    小知识

    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.

    Having the mettle to do something means you have guts. In short, you're a pretty impressive person. If you have the intellectual mettle to enter a political debate, not only do you know a lot about politics, but you have the spunk to show it off. Metal and mettle were once used interchangeably meaning a solid material like gold and the “stuff a person is made of” — until everyone got confused and the words went their separate ways.

    实用短语

    1. testing my mettle

      命悬一线

    2. mettle hard to shift

      秉性难移

    3. divine mettle

      神圣精神

    4. mettle toledo

      梅特勒

    5. mettle e

      勇气

    6. drink mettle

      酒后吐真言

    7. mettle-toledo

      分析天平

    8. mettle international education

      勇气国际教育,国际教育大展身手,秉性国际教育

    9. be on one's mettle

      鼓起勇气

    单词用法

    词源考究
    来自metal的拼写变体。后产生词义上的差别。

    同义词

    n.勇气;魄力

    nerve  /  stamina  /  courage  /  spirit  /  spunk  /  pluck

    其他释义

    blood  /  vigor  /  backbone  /  metal  /  confidence  /  constitution

    同根词

    词根:mettle

    adj.

    mettlesome勇敢的;精神饱满的