gumption

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness. Ireland,UK,uncountable,usually
    — Gumption, or rum gumption, docility, comprehenſion, capacity.
  2. Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative. US,uncountable,usually
    — "You've got a hard way of looking at things, Scarlett," he said. "But you think Hugh over. You could go far and do worse. I think his honesty and his willingness will outweigh his lack of gumption. Scarlett did not answer, for she did not want to be too rude. But to her mind there were few, if any, qualities that outweighed gumption.
  3. Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm. US,uncountable,usually
    — A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He's at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes. That's gumption.

词形变化

gumptions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gump gumph gumptionless gumption trap gumptious

词源

Borrowed from Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etymology unknown, possibly connected with Middle English gome (“attention, heed”), from Old Norse gaumr (“attention, heed”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō. English cognates include gaum (“to comprehend, understand”) and goam (“to recognize, see”).
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