词为我用 - valiant

词汇释义

valiant  TEM8  TEM4  GRE

UK  /ˈvæl.i.ənt/ US  /ˈvæl.i.ənt/

adj, A valiant action is very brave and determined, though it may lead to failure or defeat.

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外刊例句

1. Others might claim that it’s all due to valiant feminists shaming society into behaving better.(Forbes)

2. He did stay until nearly the end, and former partners credit him with valiant efforts to save the firm, including forgoing much of his compensation in 2012.(New York Times)

3. It was a valiant effort keeping the currency afloat and industry competitive in a weak dollar world.(Forbes)

4. Your small business, consultancy or private practice is losing money each and every month, and despite your valiant efforts, nothing you do is changing that fact.(Forbes)

5. Ho Chi Minh City is full of women carrying It bags and doing valiant battle with the uneven pavements in £400 Jimmy Choos.(The Guardian)

6. Leading shares made a valiant attempt to breach the 6000 level for the first time since early July 2011, but stumbled as they approached the final hurdle.(The Guardian)

7. That valiant work force somehow managed to help jump-start the stalled air travel system in the Northeast.(New York Times)

8. So the valiant federal statisticians tasked with estimating household income in the real world must muddle through more or less elegantly here, as bravely they do.(New York Times)

9. “This budget is a valiant effort in a very difficult situation,” said Luis Garicano, a professor at the London School of Economics.(New York Times)

10. Well meaning people who don’t really get what they’re doing, don’t really get what their customers are after, don’t really get much, in spite of their often valiant and kind-hearted efforts.(New York Times)

11. We reviewed the Palm Pre and thought that it was "valiant", though of course even then the comment was that: "The Palm store, by the way, is easy to navigate but sparsely populated."(The Guardian)

12. Google+ is a valiant attempt to catch up, but the odds are poor that it will succeed.(Washington Post)

词汇搭配

valiant attempt, effort, knight, warrior

词汇家族

valiantly, valiance

词汇来源

early 14c. (late 12c. in surnames), "brave, courageous, intrepid in danger," from Anglo-French vaylant, and Old French vaillant "stalwart, brave," present-participle adjective from valoir "be worthy," originally "be strong," from Latin valere "be strong, be well, be worth, have power, be able, be in health," from PIE root *wal- "to be strong." As a noun, "valiant person," from c. 1600.

近义词

bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, gutty, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, manful, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undauntable, undaunted, valorous

反义词

cowardly, gutless, spineless, weak, craven, fainthearted, pusillanimous, timorous, diffident, feeble, unheroic, boneless, fearful, abject, frightened, timid, scared, ungallant, uncourageous