英语词汇audacious的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	audacious
词源	audacious [M16th] Today audacious means ‘willing to take surprisingly bold risks’ and ‘showing a lack of respect, impudent’, but it originally had a more direct sense of ‘bold, confident, daring’. The root is Latin audax ‘bold’, also found in audacity [LME].
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