2018-11-05 每日一词 backbone

Day 34

释义：n. courage and determination

例句：

1- He has a crush on Sarah, but doesn't have the backbone to ask her out.

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

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

练习

1-翻译： （他没有胆量，在最后一刻放弃了奖学金申请。→ He didn't have the backbone, so he give up the application of schlarship at the last moment.（参考翻译) He didn't have the backbone and gave up the schlarship appilication at the last minute. / Lacking the backbone, he gave up the scholarship application at the last minute.）

2-造句

场景：她害怕失败，没有胆量参加比赛。

Scared of failure, she didn't have the backbone to take part in the competition.