doughty

英['da?t?] 美['da?ti]

反義詞

doughty 勇敢強(qiáng)悍的

來自PIE*dheugh, 有用的，合適的，詞源可能同dough.引申詞義美德的，勇敢的。

doughty: doughty: [11] Doughty originally had the rather general sense ‘worthy, virtuous’ – ‘brave’ is a secondary specialization. It comes from late Old English dohtig, an unexplained variant of an earlier Old English dyhtig, which appears to have derived ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *duhtiz ‘a(chǎn)bility, capacity’. This in turn came from a verb *dugan ‘be able or strong’, which itself came into Old English and survived dialectally until the 19th century as dow ‘be able to do something’ or ‘thrive’.
doughty (adj.): Old English dohtig "competent, good, valiant," from dyhtig "strong," related to dugan "to be fit, be able, be strong," and influenced by its past participle, dohte.

All from Proto-Germanic *duhtiz- (cognates: Middle High German tühtec, German tüchtig, Middle Dutch duchtich), from PIE *dheugh- "to be fit, be of use, proper" (cognates: German Tugend "virtue," Greek teukhein "to make ready," Irish dual "becoming, fit," Russian du?ij "strong, robust"). Rare after 17c.; in deliberately archaic or mock-heroic use since c. 1800. If it had survived, its modern form would be dighty.

1. His doughty campaigns for the underprivileged have earned him national respect.: 他為弱勢群體奔走呼號，贏得了全國的尊敬。

2. Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.: 絕大多數(shù)成功人士都有共同的特質(zhì)：脾氣倔強(qiáng)，性格剛強(qiáng)。

3. The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.: 堅強(qiáng)的老人用巨大毅力與疾病作斗爭.

4. Doughty beauty is an aesthetic category that has been advanced by Mr.: “剛美”是張玉能先生近幾年提出的一個美學(xué)范疇.