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 adventurous [əd'vɛntʃərəs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 喜欢冒险的, 有进取心的, 危险的

  1. My husband loves adventurous life while I enjoy a more peaceful domestic life.
    我丈夫喜欢充满冒险的生活，而我则喜欢宁静的家居生活。
  2. The adventurous story is a fantasy.
    这个冒险故事是想象的产物。
  3. An extended adventurous voyage or trip.
    冒险旅行一次大范围的或冒险的旅行


adventurous
[ adj ]
willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
<adj.all>
adventurous pioneersthe risks and gains of an adventuresome economy


Adventurous \Ad*ven"tur*ous\, a. [OE. aventurous, aunterous, OF.
aventuros, F. aventureux, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, n.]
1. Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to
embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied
to persons.

Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
--Milton.

2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger;
requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an
adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Syn: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring;
hazardous; venturesome. See {Rash}.

  1. Also, the Kuwaitis are still considering, but haven't yet decided, whether to proceed on any of the more adventurous fundraising plans suggested by various banks.
  2. In 1987, she published "The Beaverbrook Girl," a lively volume of memoirs about her active and adventurous life, which included horse breeding and flying helicopters.
  3. They say that the floatation will give much needed breadth to a market overly dominated by a small number of stocks. The government, still a big force on the corporate scene, says that companies must be more adventurous and expand overseas.
  4. The publishing house, founded in 1584, describes the dictionary as its most adventurous project since it started the first edition in the 19th century and completed it in 1928.
  5. The adventurous reader, charting unfamiliar territory, will be amply rewarded.
  6. Although a few adventurous Tory councils contracted out services in the mid 1980s, compulsory tendering officially began less than four years ago.
  7. Also, it is advising more adventurous investors to look at debt-laden PR group Shandwick on the basis that at 33p the shares are on a 50 per cent discount to a 1994 market rating.
  8. The biography admirably draws together the many adventurous threads that went into such a comparatively small body of work. We follow Hughes going steerage to New York and suffering the indignities of an immigrant's incarceration on Ellis Island.
  9. "Stoner is angry, withdrawn and less adventurous," said Skerritt. "He was probably once an ultraconservative politically, but all he's gone through and the changes in the past 10 years has probably changed his philosophy.
  10. "No one wants to be adventurous on the last day of the month," said one London corporate dealer. "The market won't be too lively now," he said, predicting the markets would remain quiet until the end of the year.
  11. But others are more adventurous.
  12. "The people who come here are adventurous, a lot of romantic people," Proudian said in a recent interview at Petrossian, a mirrored and marbled restaurant near Carnegie Hall.
  13. For there are certain obstacles to the pursuit of this creature, which - in fairness to the more adventurous readers of this column - I should outline. For one thing, the fish is unique to one lake in the entire world.
  14. 'The adventurous can acquire real estate, or approach companies directly and buy stakes.
  15. Most traditional western methods appear to have been ruled out, such as a tax on incomes or a value-added tax. Charging anything more than a nominal amount for utilities would be another politically adventurous step to make.
  16. Among the more adventurous strategies is a Citicorp proposal that the whole amount should be raised by having the banks underwrite floating-rate notes for Chile, according to bankers who declined to be identified.
  17. He throws adventurous sounds the way of the instruments in his small orchestra, more than he does to the choir, and it is unlikely that the relatively straightforward choral parts in Leaving posed many problems to the CBSO Chorus under Simon Halsey.
  18. One of those, Cmdr. William Riker, the adventurous one, who regularly departs the Enterprise to fight its distant battles, is played by Jonathan Frakes.
  19. He had offered both the most adventurous programme and the greatest versatility; at this young age his hugely promising big bass-baritone is not yet 'true' throughout its range.
  20. Their readers are exactly the market that interactive services have been chasing for years: savvy PC owners who like to try adventurous new technologies.
  21. Some critics find her vivacious personality and sense of fun tiresome or vulgar, her adventurous spirit verging on the reckless.
  22. At the other end of the spectrum from the studied advice of the experts are the stress-relief methods of the desperate and the adventurous.
  23. Some recipes are rooted in tradition, others are surprising, possibly appealing more to young and adventurous palates than hidebound oldsters. Rena Salaman's Greek Food (HarperCollins, Pounds 16.99) is gentler in tone and slower in pace.
  24. And because fund groups allow you to switch money out of a money fund and into their other funds simply by making a telephone call, you will be well-positioned for when you decide to become more adventurous.
  25. A chance to remain open and adventurous.
  26. In many cases, though, the adventurous eater may be forced into that role by circumstance rather than choice.
  27. The election results, which showed a trend to the left, combined with other pressures, may steer Mr. de Klerk toward the more adventurous path.
  28. A Hollywood photographer who spent decades shooting pictures of glamorous stars says his favorite subject was a shy, adventurous pilot he thought of as a sister.
  29. The National & Provincial is buying in software from financial systems giants and commissioning adventurous work from small development shops. N&P is trying to galvanise its senior executives with a Pounds 300,000 suite of software from NCR.
  30. 'Bank traders aren't very adventurous.
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