foolhardy

英语

词源

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

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈfuːlhɑːdi/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈfulˌhɑɹdi/

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• 断字：fool‧har‧dy

形容词

foolhardy (比较级 foolhardier 或 more foolhardy，最高级 foolhardiest 或 most foolhardy)

1. 蛮勇的，鲁莽的，冲动而不计后果的
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   • 2000, Bill Bryson, 章号 1, 出自 In a Sunburned Country, 1st US版, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN，页号 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，于30 August 2017归档自原页面:

     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 (复数 foolhardies)

1. 鲁莽冲动的人
   • 1977, Rolf R. Mueller, Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring，页号 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的另一种写法