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brave [brev]

a. 勇敢的, 美好的, 华丽的

n. 勇敢者

vt. 勇敢地面对

Let us remember the brave who died for the peace of the world.
让我们永远怀念为世界和平献身的勇士们。
He braved his father's displeasure by marrying that girl.
他不顾父亲不高兴，娶了那个女孩子。
He tried to brave it out when the police questioned him.
警察盘问他时，他想硬著头皮顶过去。

brave

[ noun ]

a North American Indian warrior

<noun.person>

people who are brave

<noun.group>

the home of the free and the brave

[ verb ]

face and withstand with courage

<verb.stative>

brave out

endure

weather

She braved the elements

[ adj ]

possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching

<adj.all>

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring

a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain

set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

<adj.all>

audacious explorers

fearless reporters and photographers

intrepid pioneers

brightly colored and showy

<adj.all>

girls decked out in brave new dresses

brave banners flying

`braw' is a Scottish word

a dress a bit too gay for her years

birds with gay plumage

Brave \Brave\, n.
1. A brave person; one who is daring.

The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
--F. S. Key.

2. Specifically, an Indian warrior.

3. A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

Hot braves like thee may fight. --Dryden.

4. A challenge; a defiance; bravado. [Obs.]

Demetrius, thou dost overween in all;
And so in this, to bear me down with braves. --Shak.

Brave \Brave\, a. [Compar. {Braver}; superl. {Bravest}.] [F.
brave, It. or Sp. bravo, (orig.) fierce, wild, savage, prob.
from. L. barbarus. See {Barbarous}, and cf. {Bravo}.]
1. Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to
{cowardly}; as, a brave man; a brave act.

2. Having any sort of superiority or excellence; --
especially such as in conspicuous. [Obs. or Archaic as
applied to material things.]

Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
--Bacon.

It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
--Pepys.

3. Making a fine show or display. [Archaic]

Wear my dagger with the braver grace. --Shak.

For I have gold, and therefore will be brave.
In silks I'll rattle it of every color. --Robert
Greene.

Frog and lizard in holiday coats
And turtle brave in his golden spots. --Emerson.

Syn: Courageous; gallant; daring; valiant; valorous; bold;
heroic; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; magnanimous;
high-spirited; stout-hearted. See {Gallant}.

Brave \Brave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Braved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Braving}.]
1. To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at
defiance; to defy; to dare.

These I can brave, but those I can not bear.
--Dryden.

2. To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.]

Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast
braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced
or braved. --Shak.

"The twenties seems a decade of brave beginnings," he writes.
That may sound like bluster - but it is a brave person who ignores it.
Those who care about intellectual culture will want to pay attention to this brave band of former anti-Americans.
"It's heads I win, tails you lose because brave words notwithstanding, the peril of communal animosity is still not taken seriously.
Hundreds of brave East Germans tried to scale the wall or tunnel under it or crash through a checkpoint.
And I think you need to be a brave company to take that decision,' he said. For Ainley, the assessments presented an obvious solution to a problem.
Yesterday, officials overseeing the independence process were putting on brave faces.
Rugged mushers and their teams of 12 to 20 eager dogs brave blizzards, wild animals, frostbite and 1,000 miles of sled-busting trail.
Sly satire, hints of farce - and a brave assault on dogma and bigotry.
Incidentally, I am told that the unsatisfied customer at La donna del lago did go down to Marilyn Horne's dressing-room afterwards to tell her to her face why he had been booing: a brave man, or a foolish one.
"We must do everything possible to ensure that these brave students do not become pawns or bargaining chips in the administration's future dealings with that repressive regime," Kennedy said.
Yet even after 15 years of open-door policies, the country's inner workings remain so well cloaked that it is a challenge for anybody seeking to chronicle its progress. Mr Overholt, then, is a brave man.
Analysts say its lack of influence may even prevent the consolidation of Arnotts' earnings under US accounting law. Mr Johnson, putting a brave face on the outcome, says Campbell is now the dominant shareholder in Arnotts.
Those willing to brave the secondary market "have greater selection," says Financial Management Group's Mr. Davidson.
Glemp, the Roman Catholic primate of Poland, said in his sermon: "After five years, the nation remembers the brave chaplain and will remember.
But in the context of the late 1960s his boldness in recognising what he wanted to do in his music and the source of his creative strength now seems extremely brave.
In the face of danger, they are brave, well-trained and dedicated.
To avoid that, the journalists at Romania Libera have taken a brave step.
Very laudable, but it would be a brave soul who believed that everything on offer was of merit.
Nowhere does the author invoke Joyce, but her intentions are basically the same brave ones as the creator of Ulysses. Why then does this novel, for all its intelligence and vision, not really take off?
If organised criminal gangs are ratcheting up the level of their intimidation of company executives to the ultimate penalty, the authorities' deepest fear is that few companies will prove determined or brave enough to resist.
Since the economic outlook is so uncertain, it would take a brave insurer to predicate expansion plans on a bull market for equities.
Then, he and his followers will land and start a brave new world like the one they now inhabit: Adelphi, Texas, the Town That Lives by the Golden Rule.
It's a brave film to make not least because the Inland Revenue might be watching. The latest and most dreaded management buzzword - 'upward appraisal' - is analysed in The Business (Thursday, 7.30-8.00, BBC2).
But even then, he concludes 'it will take time'. In his more creative moments, Mr Gorbachev has allowed himself to contemplate such a brave new Asian world.
It would be a brave person, and probably foolish, to deny that Vietnam will be among the world's fastest growing economies over the next few years.
Unless the government takes some uncharacteristically brave decisions, the pensions revolution of the 1980s has also run its course.
If ancient rivals like Britain and France or France and Germany can reconcile, then why not the nations of the East and West? In the East, brave men and women are showing us the way.
'This is something for the brave and the knowledgeable,' he says, adding that investors must also have the financial resources to match their trading activities. The intrepid hands-on investor can trade derivatives directly through a futures broker.
Mendes' production remains too earth bound and tentative to do full justice to the eternal truths but it is a brave stab at a great play.

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