Picture the moment someone sees the risky thing and steps toward it instead of away. The step is taken on purpose, with eyes open — that is what daring holds. Everything else on this page is that same step, seen from a different angle: sometimes the person taking it, sometimes the thing they did, sometimes the quality that made them do it.
From the word’s history
The evidence packet records daring as the present participle and gerund of the verb dare. That fits the picture: the adjective is someone caught in the middle of daring, and the noun is that same daring held still and named.
資料裡記著 daring 是動詞 dare（敢）的現在分詞和動名詞形式。這條線索跟畫面對得上：形容詞是「正在敢」的那個樣子，名詞則是把那股敢停下來、給它一個名字。
evidence packet: Wiktionary form-of relation — daring = present participle and gerund of dare (wikt:daring:verb:0)
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
daringadj/ˈdɛə.ɹɪŋ/
- 1
Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.
- “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”
- 2
Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.
- […]By this scimitar, That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince That won three fields of Sultan Solyman, I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, To win thee, lady. […]
- 3
Racy; sexually provocative.
- Just what I wanted, seeing my mom in a daring bikini—or worse yet, my being in one. I had the perfect drawer I could bury it in.
daringnoun/ˈdɛə.ɹɪŋ/
- 1
Boldness.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。