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

You've got spunk, wolfhouse. I'll give you that.
你真够倒霉的万夫豪斯，让我输些钱吧。
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。
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。
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。
It's almost like Americans have the trademark on that "toughness" and no one born outside our borders could possibly have the backbone, nerve or spunk to bang with a monster like Dwight Howard.
意思几乎就是说所有美国本土的球员天生就有那“强硬”的商标，而在美利坚外出生的球员就没可能有那种与像魔兽霍华德猛撞的脊柱，胆量和决心。
Show some spunk. Quit pretending you're being abused.
慷慷慨慨！甭装可怜虫！
For god's sake, man, where's your spunk!
看在上帝的份上，伙计，你的勇气呢！
I admired her independence and her spunk.
我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。
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。
But he was a nice boy and he had spunk.
他很和善又有「胆识」