foolhardy

英语

词源

源自中古英語 folehardy、foolhardi、folherdi，源自古法語 fol hardi (“莽撞的”)，源自古法語 fol (“愚蠢的，疯癫的”)（←拉丁語 follis (“风箱；袋子；充气球；肚子”)，最终源自原始印歐語 *bʰelǵʰ- (“涨”)） + 古法語 hardi (“耐用的，强韧的，坚韧的”)（hardir (“使...坚硬”)的过去式，源自不可考的古法蘭克語 *hartjan，源自原始日耳曼語 *harduz (“硬的，勇敢的”)），等价于fool +‎ hardy。对比fool-bold、fool-large等词。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈfuːlhɑːdi/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈfulˌhɑɹdi/

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• 斷字：fool‧har‧dy

形容词

foolhardy (比較級 foolhardier 或 more foolhardy，最高級 foolhardiest 或 most foolhardy)

1. 蛮勇的，鲁莽的，冲动而不计后果的
   • Template:RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer
   • 2000, Bill Bryson, 章號 1, 出自 In a Sunburned Country, 1st US版, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN，頁號 14:

     In the middle distance several foolhardy souls in wet suits were surfing toward some foamy outbursts on the rocky headland; nearer in, a scattering of paddlers was being continually and, it seemed, happily engulfed by explosive waves.

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   • 2017 3月 26, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply”, 出自 The Observer‎^[1], London，於30 August 2017歸檔自原頁面:

     It is a reckless, foolhardy leap into the unknown and the prelude, perhaps, to what the existentialist writer Albert Camus described in La chute – a fall from grace, in every conceivable sense.

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近义词

• bold
• daring
• foolish
• irresponsible
• rash
• reckless

衍生词汇

• foolhardice (弃用)
• foolhardihood (弃用)
• foolhardily
• foolhardiness

名词

foolhardy (複數 foolhardies)

1. 鲁莽冲动的人
   • 1977, Rolf R. Mueller, Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring，頁號 26:

     Resentful of the saddle-fast stranger, eight foolhardies return for more adventure.

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   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys:

     Some foolhardies in the schoolhouse laughed at him then and Griff stuck their heads into toilets, one by one over the next week.

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中古英语

形容词

foolhardy

1. folehardy的另一種寫法