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

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。
And while I admire your spunk, miss smith, this is a school built on tradition.
虽然我很佩服你的勇气，不过这是学校的传统。
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。
Show some spunk. Quit pretending you're being abused.
慷慷慨慨！甭装可怜虫！
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。
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。
But he was a nice boy and he had spunk.
他很和善又有「胆识」
In human reproduction, one female egg is usually fertilized by one spunk.
在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。
I admired her independence and her spunk.
我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。
Until now, a Sandra Bullock film often turned on spunk or rue.
桑德拉？布洛克以前饰演的影片常常表现出勇气或悲伤的主题。