mettle

mettle['metl]

• n.
  • 性格；内在的气质
  • 勇气；精神；才能
  • 耐力，持久力
• 短语:
  • be on (或upon) one's mettle 鼓起勇气，奋发，发挥最大的能力，准备尽最大的努力
  • put someone off his mettle [废语]使某人泄气，挫某人的锐气
  • put (或 set) someone on his mettle
    • 考验某人的毅力和勇气[亦作 try someone's mettle]
    • 使某人振作起来，激励某人尽最大努力
  • show one's mettle (或 metal) 显示自己的气质(或品质)

• put-ons
• hyphenized
• soviet
• line block
• multiplication tables
• horsehair worm
• moralisations
• renal pyramids
• power semiconductor
• binarity
• archaicisms
• az-
• spawning screen
• dangle in front of
• dippy
• pseudoliberal
• secret process
• water bath
• subventionary
• handy-talky
• chase one's （own） tail
• trilbys
• buckle down
• queen consort
• rigorism
• Zunyi
• vertical grouping
• hairbreadths
• aedeagus
• pickaback
• leery
• take leave to do something
• clock in
• the gallery
• causeway
• hot tub
• moistify
• phlyctenae
• damson plums
• miliarial
• calci-
• instituted
• enquire into sth
• contrail-formation graph
• chemical focus
• tricksterism
• asexualise
• water people
• water noise
• motor scooter
• ptyalectases
• cytotoxicities
• manifestly
• as many again
• scintigraphies
• Ingush
• boletic acid
• disendowment
• veganism
• anaclasis
• automize, automized
• reabsorbed
• petroglyph
• tenebrousnesses
• thinking-through
• puckery
• reversible process
• call the shots/tune
• as bold as brass
• conferring
• key words
• Maxwell,James Clerk
• Vivian
• jeopardize,jeopardising
• euphoniums
• bakery
• california sea lions
• minimum tillage
• it all adds up
• doughnutting
• keto acid
• Catholicises
• dew point
• conjunctive transformations
• in-feed
• bantamweight
• leukopenic
• pressure regulators
• scalpelling
• a pillar of the of law 等
• Adyge
• chain pipe
• shower stalls
• talk game
• ass about with
• get one's oats
• the multitude(s)
• divorce papers
• inform…of
• in a sort