spunk

英 [spʌŋk]

美 [spʌŋk]

n. 勇气; 胆量; 决心; 性感的人

现在分词：spunking　

BNC.39214 / COCA.27451

牛津词典

noun

N-UNCOUNT 勇气;胆量
Spunkis courage.
1. I admired her independence and her spunk.
  我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。

noun

the courage to carry on
1. he kept fighting on pure spunk
2. you haven't got the heart for baseball
Synonym:heartmettlenerve
material for starting a fire
Synonym:kindlingtindertouchwoodpunk

Polly got lots of spunk, an'she got some style, too.
波莉了大量的胆量，一'了一些她的风格，也。
Show some spunk. Quit pretending you're being abused.
慷慷慨慨！甭装可怜虫！
Those kids had spunk who hiked through the forest in the dark.
那些黑夜里走过森林的孩子胆子真大。
For god's sake, man, where's your spunk!
看在上帝的份上，伙计，你的勇气呢！
Spunk up, there's nothing to worry about!
打起精神来，没有什么可忧虑的。
She got her spunk up and left the country.
她一怒之下离开了这个国家。
Since they have a lot of spunk, no matter how down and out they get, they never give up.
因为他们有很多勇气，不论如何，并得到了他们，他们永远不会放弃。
After his death, the soldier was cited for spunk. Thousands suffer death or mutilation as a result of the bomb attack.
那位士兵死后因作战勇敢而受到表彰。这场空袭造成数千人死的死伤的伤。
He watched her too closely, and too anxiously, to have much of what John Barton called "spunk" in him.
他就一直如醉如痴地盯住了她看，用约翰？巴顿的话来说，连一点“神气”也没有了。
But he was a nice boy and he had spunk.
他很和善又有「胆识」