- 1使壯膽；給人勇氣
To embolden someone is to give them more courage — to make them braver, or more ready to act. A teacher’s kind words can embolden a shy student. A win can embolden a team to try something bigger. News writers also use it when a group becomes bolder after good news, and though actually there can be a warning in that: “emboldened” sometimes means they now dare to do something other people may not like. The core is still courage, not size and not the look of letters on a page. Everyday speech often just says “give someone courage” or “make someone braver.”
core核心畫面
組成em- … -en around bold: a two-sided fix that means “to make more of this quality” — here, to make more bold (give more courage). From bold + that em- -en pair.
同家族的字
- boldthe quality being increased: bravery / readiness to act
- boldlydoing something in a brave way
- boldnessthe noun for that brave quality
原始詞典資料2 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。
emboldenverb/ɛmˈbəʊld(ə)n/
- 1
To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
- Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.
- I haue heard many ſuch things: miſerable comforters are ye all. Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou anſwereſt?
- 2
mediapublishingtypographyTo format (text) in boldface.
- This note introduces several additional features of LATEX: […] ▪ The use of text style commands, including the \emph command to emphasize text, the \textbf command to embolden text, and the \texttt command to produce typewriter style text.
- The [HTML] tags <p></p> indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: <em></em> for emphasis (typically italics), <u></u> for underline and <strong></strong> to embolden text.
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。