2sense/spirit of adventurewillingness to try new things, take risks etc 冒险精神
Come on – where’s your sense of adventure?
来吧——你的冒险精神哪里去了?
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sense/spirit of adventure• Dole can opt for some one out of the blue, making a boldstroke and hoping to demonstrate a spirit of adventure.• A secret always buoyed her up, gave her a sense of adventure.• A sense of adventure, perhaps?• The excitement gradually left them and the boyishsense of adventureseeped slowly away.• We should strive for the same sense of adventure.• It is like they embody the spirit of adventure, that sense of infinite newness.• The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure.• The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today.
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adventure• As a young man he went off to Africa, looking for adventure.• Willis was a young man looking for adventure.• He always used to tell us about his adventures at sea.• My grandfather used to tell us about his adventures as a sea captain during the war.• I cursed my luck and began to inventadventures.• It's a book about the author's real-lifeadventures in Nepal.• All right, I'll go without you - you guys have no sense of adventure at all!• Hunting him down and destroying him for ever can become a full-scaleadventure in itself.• They plunged into the thick adrenal details of the adventure.• In her new book, she looks back with affection on her wartimeadventures.• To what adventures and extremes will it lead us?
Originadventure
(1200-1300)Old Frenchaventure, from Latinadvenire“to arrive”, from ad-“to” + venire“to come”