plucky

英 [ˈplʌki]

美 [ˈplʌki]

adj.  勇敢的; 有胆量的; 刚毅的

最高级：pluckiest　

BNC.22714 / COCA.24306

牛津词典

adj.

• 勇敢的；有胆量的；刚毅的
  having a lot of courage and determination

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 有勇气的；有胆量的
  If someone, for example a sick child, is described asplucky, it means that although they are weak, they face their difficulties with courage.
  1. The plucky schoolgirl amazed doctors by hanging on to life for nearly two months.
     这名勇敢的女生坚持不放弃生命近两个月的精神令医生感到震惊。

双语例句

• But although sky claims still to adhere to those principles, the reality is rather different now that sky has moved from a plucky start-up to an established incumbent.
  虽然天空声称仍在坚持这些原则，但事实并非如此，因为天空已从一家胆色过人的初创公司变为成熟的老牌企业。
• The plucky teen, described by mainland media as "the poorest girl in the Sichuan earthquake," said Hong Kong was beautiful and she was happy about her first visit out of the mainland.
  这位勇敢的，被大陆媒体描述为“四川大地震中最令人可怜的女孩”说香港很美丽，而且她很高兴第一次在大陆以外的履行。
• WALL-E, however, looks rusty and hard-working and plucky, and expresses his personality with body language and ( mostly) with the binocular-like video cameras that serve as his eyes.
  而瓦力锈迹斑斑、工作勤快、勇敢坚决，运用肢体语言以及更多通过双目并用的摄像头眼睛来表达情感。
• It was very plucky of you to chase after the burglar like that.
  你真有勇气，敢那样追赶窃贼。
• Plucky staff who work at the station are visited once a month by a postman who collects weather data, and a helicopter which delivers food, water and wood for the stove each autumn.
  胆大的气象站人员在这里工作，每个月会有邮差来收集气象数据，每年秋天会有直升机送来食物、水及生火的木材。
• He was what the British, wary of success, like most of all-a plucky loser.
  他还是英国人最喜欢的那个人，敬畏成功虽败犹勇。
• A plucky lampooner of the administration.
  行政部门的一个有勇气的讽刺作家。
• The plucky schoolgirl amazed doctors by hanging on to life for nearly two months.
  这名勇敢的女生坚持不放弃生命近两个月的精神令医生感到震惊。
• SYDNEY ( Reuters)-A plucky Australian schoolboy who asked a former Miss Universe to his school dance, to be rebuffed, has finally had his dream date over lunch.
  一名勇敢的高中男生邀请前任环球小姐詹尼弗·霍金斯参加他的校园舞会但后来被拒绝了，不过他最终还是和霍金斯共进了午餐。
• New Rules for the New Economy suggests that we might even learn something from those plucky life forms that exploded on the scene a half-billion years ago.
  《新经济之新规则》提示我们甚至该向在五亿年前那个时候急速增长的那些勇敢的生命形式学习。