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单词 bravado
释义
bravado
noun[U]
uk
/brəˈvɑː.dəʊ/us
/brəˈvɑː.doʊ/
a show ofcourage,especiallywhenunnecessaryanddangerous, to makepeopleadmireyou:
虚张声势；逞能
It was anactofbravado that made himaskhisbosstoresign.就是蛮干逞能的心理促使他要求老板辞职的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Doing things without fear or proper thought
  • carpe diem
  • daredevil
  • desperado
  • devil-may-care
  • foolhardy
  • hotheadedness
  • impetuous
  • impetuously
  • impetuousness
  • impulsive
  • like there is/was no tomorrowidiom
  • precipitate
  • precipitately
  • rashness
  • reckless
  • recklessly
  • tomorrow
  • trigger-happy
  • unafraid
  • with no thought forsomethingidiom
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(Definition ofbravadofrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

bravado| American Dictionary

bravado
noun[U]
us
/brəˈvɑ·doʊ/
a show ofbravery,esp. whenunnecessaryanddangerous, to makepeopleadmireyou
(Definition ofbravadofrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbravado

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Now, on turning to the animals' performances, leave aside verbalizations,bravado, and consciousness.
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Thebravadoof a young man now has to become an older man living with the courage of his convictions.
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But hisbravado, while it leads us down many intriguing and unusual pathways, evaporates under the weight of the urban variable.
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What we see instead is genuinebravadoas the researchers plunge into the struggle to extract meaning from the cross-national data.
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Their fiery speeches, their ' secret ' gatherings so easily penetrated by informers, their brandishing of home-made pikes can also be read as theatre,bravado, coat-trailing.
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Regardless of the depth of his friendships, he had a measured sense of the boundaries between thebravadoof patrollers' discourse and the reality of their acts of violence.
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Youth who claimed to have little emotional reaction to their involvement in severe maltreatment may also have been displaying the "tough"bravadocommon among externalizing youth.
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Thebravadobecomes more and more what it perhaps had always been - a mask put on for his father until he could no longer disguise his vulnerability and failure.
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In our focus groups, gangs were revered by boys as young as 11 and 12 who talked of their flashy dress style and displays ofbravadoand wealth.
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Such cynics saw honour as a matter of rank and preferment, to be gained by noisy shows of loyalty and the traditional swaggeringbravadoof the braggart soldier.
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Communists always announced their commitment withbravado.
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Having discovered that a few of them are common has only given us a false sense ofbravadoabout our ability to predict and control the future.
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Who are we to suppress hisbravado?
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Bravadoor insouciance was another reaction, verging on the blasphemous.
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Within local communities, qiangqin developed its own set of rationales, its own 'ceremonies' and its own ethos, one based on notions of masculinebravadoand prowess (fengliu).
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