brave
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/icons/point.icon 勇敢な
brave: 人や行為が勇敢であることをいうのに最もよく使われる語 bold: action, step, moveなどと結びつき, 行動の思いきりの良さを示す adjective
〈人が〉勇敢な, 勇ましい(↔ cowardly); 〖A is ~ to do/It is ~ of A to do〗 …するなんてA〈人〉は勇気がある〘勇気・勇敢は最大の美徳として評価される〙 e.g. a brave soldier
e.g. he put up a brave fight before losing.
e.g. his medals made a brave show.
noun
〖the ~; 複数扱い〗 勇敢な人々, 勇士たち
⦅やや古⦆ 北米先住民の戦士
verb with object
〈困難なことなど〉に勇敢に立ち向かう, …をものともしない
e.g. we had to brave the full heat of the sun.
PHRASES
go outside in spite of poor weather conditions:
e.g. many people braved the elements to enjoy the attractions.
used to refer, often ironically, to a new and hopeful period in history resulting from major changes in society:
e.g. the brave new world of computing. title of a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley (1932), after Shakespeare's The Tempest (v. i. 183).
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