mettle

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met·tle /ˈmetl/ noun [uncountableU] → metal

1 BRAVEcourage and determination to do something even when it is very difficult 勇气，奋斗精神

test/show/prove your mettle

a crisis which will test the minister’s mettle

将要考验该部长意志的一场危机

2 on your mettle British EnglishBrEPREPARE if you are on your mettle, you are ready to try as hard as possible because your abilities are being tested 准备尽最大努力

We’ll have to be on our mettle from the start.

我们一开始就得全力以赴。

keep/put somebody on their mettle

This was just his way of keeping me on my mettle.

他就是用这样的方法激励我奋发向上的。

Examples from the Corpus

on your mettle• He had been on his mettle throughout.• He thinks this keeps him on his mettle, but it often leaves him at a loss for the right word.• I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I didn't get big-headed.• Variations in response put you on your mettle.

Examples from the Corpus

mettle• Frazer's disciple, Malinowski, was of a very different mettle.• He was an outstanding fighter pilot who proved his mettle in a variety of tough assignments, including two wars.• It is in the treatment of the upper torso that the artist really shows his mettle.• Houston is the only team with proven playoff mettle.• Louis Armstrong and Bunny Berigan may have been trumpet talents of a similar mettle but there the resemblance stopped.• The result is a sort of upscale Hemingway-esque story about affluent, pampered men testing their mettle.• You are pleased with yourself for venturing, testing your mettle.

test/show/prove your mettle• Townsend boys got into City almost automatically; they had already proved their mettle.• The result is a sort of upscale Hemingway-esque story about affluent, pampered men testing their mettle.• It is in the treatment of the upper torso that the artist really shows his mettle.• Graham led a lovely rib, slabby and clean, though it didn't test our mettle too severely.• Crises will strew his path to test his mettle.• You are pleased with yourself for venturing, testing your mettle.• He was an outstanding fighter pilot who proved his mettle in a variety of tough assignments, including two wars.

Origin mettle

(1500-1600) metal

met·tle noun

Chinese

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BNC: 21620 COCA: 20465

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