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foolhardiness or rashness

Chinese translation: 有勇无谋，轻率鲁莽

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English term or phrase:foolhardiness or rashness
Chinese translation:有勇无谋，轻率鲁莽
Entered by: Wenjer Leuschel (X)

05:07 Jul 23, 2004
English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Intellectual History
English term or phrase: foolhardiness or rashness
You can easily work out concrete examples of this Greek ethics for yourself. Thus abstention from sexual intercourse, celibacy, would be to Greeks unnatural, excessive, and therefore not virtuous; promiscuity in sex life, obsessive indulgence in or ... would also ... not virtuous. The Golden Mean here, as with the other appetites, involves self-control, balance, decency. Or, as a final illustration, courage is clearly a virtue, and a fine manly one. Cowardice -- insufficiency of courage -- is most obviously a vice. But so too is excess of courage, which we commonly call ***foolhardiness or rashness,*** and which is the attribute, not of the brave man, but of the show-off.

中国话里有与 foolhardiness 和 rashness 相称的两个词吗？
暴虎冯河、匹夫之勇，似乎都不相称。
Wenjer Leuschel (X)
Taiwan
Local time: 20:46
有勇无谋，轻率鲁莽
Explanation:
foolhardiness有勇无谋
rashness 轻率鲁莽
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Chinoise
Local time: 09:46
Grading comment
先来先选。
译为：有勇无谋、莽撞轻率。
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1有勇无谋，轻率鲁莽
Chinoise
4 +1愚勇/轻率
Mark Xiang


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
有勇无谋，轻率鲁莽


Explanation:
foolhardiness有勇无谋
rashness 轻率鲁莽

Chinoise
Local time: 09:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
先来先选。
译为：有勇无谋、莽撞轻率。

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ozethai: 或有勇无谋，鲁莽行事者。
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
愚勇/轻率


Explanation:
foolhardiness=愚勇, 有勇无谋, 蛮勇
rashness=轻率, 不瞻前顾后

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Note added at 3 hrs 29 mins (2004-07-23 08:36:41 GMT) Post-grading
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For this question, it is only a choice of wording, not the meaning.

Mark Xiang
Local time: 20:46
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 2

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agree  Ozethai: 'Twould be courteous to cite the source, Powerword 2003, wouldn't it?
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