adventure

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/    /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/|/ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. uncountable
    — his sense of adventure
  2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event. countable,uncountable
    — a life full of adventures
  3. A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks. countable,uncountable
    — He loved excitement and adventure.
  4. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. countable,uncountable
  5. A text adventure or an adventure game. countable,uncountable
    — The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
  6. That which happens by chance; hazard; hap. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  7. Chance of danger or loss. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  8. Risk; danger; peril. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — He was in great adventure of his life.
动词 v.
  1. To risk oneself. archaic,reflexive
    — O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the [thee] auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye […]
  2. To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something. intransitive
    — [A]fter the confusion of tongues, when Japhet and his posteretie, emboldened by example of Noe, adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes, […]
  3. To try the chance; to take the risk. archaic,intransitive,with-infinitive
    — What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.
  4. To dare to say or utter. transitive
    — But were I to adventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!
  5. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. archaic,transitive
    — Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]
  6. To risk or hazard; jeopard. transitive
    — Foꝛ what wiſe merchaunt aduentureth all his good in one ſhip?

词形变化

adventures plural aventure alternative,obsolete adventures present,singular,third-person adventuring participle,present adventured participle,past adventured past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template adventure infinitive adventure first-person,present,singular adventured first-person,past,singular adventure present,second-person,singular adventurest archaic,present,second-person,singular adventured past,second-person,singular adventuredst archaic,past,second-person,singular adventures present,singular,third-person adventureth archaic,present,singular,third-person adventured past,singular,third-person adventure plural,present adventured past,plural adventure present,subjunctive adventured past,subjunctive adventure imperative,present - imperative,past adventuring participle,present adventured participle,past aventure alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Vulgar Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti
Proto-Italic *gʷənjō
Vulgar Latin veniō
Vulgar Latin adveniō
Vulgar Latin adventūrus
Vulgar Latin *adventūra
Old French aventurebor.
Middle English aventure
English adventure
From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). By surface analysis, advent + -ure.
Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
词源 2
From Middle English aventuren, auntren, from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
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