gumption

英 [ˈɡʌmpʃn]

美 [ˈɡʌmpʃn]

n.  机智; 老练; 精明; 勇气; 胆力; 决心

法律

BNC.42052 / COCA.26054

牛津词典

noun

• 机智；老练；精明
  the intelligence needed to know what to do in a particular situation
• 勇气；胆力；决心
  courage and determination

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 机智；老练；精明
  If someone hasgumption, they are able to think what it would be sensible to do in a particular situation, and they do it.
  1. Surely anyone with marketing gumption should be able to sell good books at any time of year.
     无疑，有经营头脑的人在一年的任何时节都应该能够卖掉好书。
• N-UNCOUNT 勇气；胆量；魄力
  If someone hasthe gumption todo something, they are brave enough to do it.
  1. He suspected that deep down, she admired him for having the gumption to disagree with her.
     他认为，在内心深处她十分佩服他有勇气和她唱反调。

英英释义

noun

• fortitude and determination
  1. he didn't have the guts to try it
  Synonym:backbonegritgutsmoxiesand
• sound practical judgment
  1. Common sense is not so common
  2. he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
  3. fortunately she had the good sense to run away
  Synonym:common sensegood sensehorse sensesensemother wit

双语例句

• The flaw in my character which she had already spotted was lack of "gumption".
  在我的性格中，她已经发现的弱点是缺少“进取心”。
• When it is manifested in learning, Japanese students on the whole respect teachers and keep discipline, and work very hard. They have gumption of never lagging behind.
  反映到学习上，日本学生整体上是尊师守纪、刻苦勤奋的，总有一种不甘落后的劲头。
• From the results of the survey analysis, clinical nurses to become specialist nurse and clinical nurse specialists is much higher than the proportion of real need, show that clinical nursing staff with strong gumption, desire for career development.
  从调查结果分析，临床护士渴望成为专科护士与临床护理专家的比例远远高于现实需要，说明临床护理人员具有较强的进取心，渴望职业的发展。
• If she'd had any gumption she'd have caught her another man long ago, instead of waiting for Alex to get money enough to marry her.
  她要是有点勇气，本来早能够找到别的男人，何必等待亚历克斯攒够了钱再来娶她呢。
• She had the gumption to write directly to the company manager and persuade him to give her a job.
  她有魄力直接写信给公司经理并且劝说他给她一个工作。
• "Now, why didn't I have the gumption to say that?"
  “怎的，我为什么就没勇气说这话呢？”
• If a chancellor has the gumption and Mr Osborne seems to he can bend the public finances to his will.
  如果一个财政大臣够英明，奥斯本看起来挺英明，那么他应该想把公共财政怎么样就怎么样。
• I wish I had a glass of beer; but I can't get up the gumption to go down to the village an'get it.
  天呐，我真想喝一杯啤酒，可又鼓不起劲下村子里去。
• Fewer still would have the gumption to claim the miracle was a sham and conspicuously loiter outside the gleaming new towers of Chongqing or Guangzhou to try to prove it on tape: no one goes in or out of the empty buildings there.
  更少有人会敢于宣称中国奇迹是假的，并招摇地徘徊在重庆或广州熠熠生辉的新大厦外，试图用录像证明这种说法这些大厦空空如也，无人进出。
• "But& well, Hugh has n't got much gumption or else he'd make a success of his kindling."
  “不过&嗯，休没有多大气力，要不然他的柴火生意是会成功的。”