courage，bravery，backbone，nerve
这些名词都可表示“勇气、胆量”之意。
courage普通用词。指面对危险或困难时无所畏惧的精神和敢于奋斗的进取心。
bravery指在危险中表现出的无所畏惧精神或在逆境中仍能坚持下去的毅力。
backbone指性格倔强，意志坚定，有骨气，有顽强的决心去做某事。
nerve侧重指面临危险或在冒险的情况下具有冷静、清醒的头脑和坚定无畏的勇气。
- 词义辨析
- 双语例句
1、
The bomber had lost his nerve and fled.
放炸弹的人没了胆子，逃之夭夭。
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2、
The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
提到约翰就真的让人心痛。
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3、
I just played badly. It wasn't nerves.
我只是打得很糟，不是紧张造成的。
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4、
I nerved myself to face the pain.
我鼓足勇气去面对痛苦。
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5、
We need to keep our nerve now.
我们现在需要保持镇静。
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He kept his nerve to win the final set 6–4.
他鼓足斗志以6：4赢了最后一盘。
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7、
Even after years as a singer, he still suffers from nerves before a performance.
尽管已做歌手多年，他在演出前仍然神经紧张。
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I was going to have a go at parachuting but lost my nerve at the last minute.
我想尝试一下跳伞，可到最后关头却没有勇气了。
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9、
Everyone's nerves were on edge (= everyone felt tense ) .
人人都觉得紧张。
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10、
nerve cells
神经元
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11、
The brandy made him choke, but it restored his nerve...
虽说白兰地呛了他一下，却让他恢复了勇气。
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12、
He's got a nerve asking us for money!
他还觍着脸跟我们借钱！
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13、
Lately he's not done a bloody thing and it's getting on my nerves.
近来他没有干任何坏事，这让我心神不定起来。
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It took a lot of nerve to take the company to court.
将这个公司告上法庭需要极大的勇气。
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He held his nerve to beat Andre Agassi in a five-set thriller on Court One...
他镇定自若，在1号场地惊心动魄的5盘3胜对决中击败了安德鲁·阿加西。
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I don't know how you have the nerve to show your face after what you said!
真不知道你说了那些话以后怎么还有脸露面！
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17、
...in cases where the nerve fibres are severed.
在一些神经纤维被割断的病例中
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nerve endings
神经末梢
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19、
Eileen, mother of three, had been living on her nerves for some considerable time.
艾琳是3个孩子的母亲，已有相当一段时间总是感到紧张不安。
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He lives on his nerves (= is always worried) .
他就爱神经紧张。
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21、
He had the nerve to ask me to prove who I was.
他竟敢要求我证明我自己的身份。
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22、
...spinal nerves.
脊神经
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Every nerve in her body was tense.
她的每一根神经都绷得紧紧的。
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24、
He never got up enough nerve to meet me.
他从没有足够的胆量来见我。
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They've got a nerve, complaining about our behaviour...
他们竟敢对我们的行为表示不满。
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I can be very patient, and then I can burst if my nerves are worn out.
我很有耐心，可如果我的承受力到了极限，我就撑不住了。
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I need something to calm/steady my nerves .
我需要点东西来稳定一下我的情绪。
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Alistair saw Henry shrink, as if the words had touched a nerve...
阿利斯泰尔看到亨利向后缩了一下，好像那些话触到了他的痛处。
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29、
the optic nerve
视神经
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Jill's nerves are stretched to breaking point...
吉尔的神经绷紧到了极点。
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- 相关短语
- accessory nerve副神经;
- abducens nerve外展神经;
- cranial nerve involvement颅神经受累
- common fibular(peroneal) nerve常见腓骨（腓）神经
- femoral nerve股神经;
- voluntary motor nerve自愿运动神经
- inferior gluteal nerve臀下神经;
- long thoracic nerve胸长神经;
- lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh股外侧皮神经;
- musculocutaneous nerve肌皮神经;
- motor nerven.运动神经;
- median nerve正中神经;
- nerve wracking神经损伤
- nerve tissue神经组织;
- nerve fibern.神经元，神经纤维;
- nerve endings神经末梢;
- nerve ending神经末梢;
- nerve cord神经索;
- nerve centren.神经中枢，中枢;
- nerve centern.神经元，神经中枢;
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