每日一词 36 l backbone

每日一词  36l backbone

1-基础意

Courage and determination

2-进阶篇

名词，脊椎骨，引申为支柱，勇气，胆量。

我们今天学习，胆量的意思，和courage替代

e.g：某人很怂，没有勇气去追

He has a crush on Sarah, but doesn’t have backbone to ask her out.

Have a crush on sb,  迷恋某人

e.g: 重庆公交车事件

Nobody on the Chongqing bus had a backbone to intervene and prevent the middle-aged woman from assaulting the driver. If somebody did, the story would have turned out very differently.

e.g: 冰桶挑战

He has enough backbone to take up the Ice Bucket Challenge.

3-翻译：He

had no backbone and gave up applying for the scholarship at last moment.

答案：

He didn’t have backbone and gave up the scholarship application at last minute.

Lacking of backbone, he gave the scholarship application at last minute.

4-句子：

A） As the team leader, you should have a ball to make final decision and have a backbone to afford its responsibility.

B） Nobody on the board had a backbone to tell truth to customer about wrong component evidently assembled in shipping products. If somebody did, the customer’s expectation would have turned out another story. We can’t compromise the uncompromisable.