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发音：[ˈfulˌhɑrdi]
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例句：
- Foolhardy means recklessly bold or rash, taking unnecessary risks without thinking about the potential consequences. It implies a lack of good judgement.
- Successful entrepreneurs are not foolhardy; they gauge their risk tolerance based on the potential emotional, professional and financial costs.
- Many military analysts say Russia would not be this foolhardy, given the damage a dirty bomb could do to its own troops and the territory under its control.
- Members of the party that won control of the House would typically consider it foolhardy to risk their power and image by engaging in such a risky internal power struggle.
- She is regarded as a bold advocate by some and as a foolhardy provocateur by others because she left the country and returned illegally, daring immigration agents to detain her.
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解释：
- Foolhardy这个词作形容词使用，其表示“foolishly adventurous or bold”这一含义，即“莽撞的/有勇无谋的/鲁莽的/蛮干的”，与rash/reckless/daredevil/irresponsible这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- People also tend to fall into two categories regarding self-control — those who want to act immediately even if the action might be foolhardy and those who sit on the couch and procrastinate.（关于自我控制，人们也倾向于分为两类——那些即使行动可能是蛮干的，也想立即采取行动的人，以及那些坐在沙发上拖延的人。）
—Science - Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” — at least not in the sense we usually imagine — would probably be dismissed as cranks.（大多数物理学家鲁莽地写了一篇论文，声称“没有黑洞”——至少不是我们通常想象的那种意义上的黑洞——可能会被当作胡思乱想。）
—Science - At a time when the Apple Watch is miles ahead of any other smartwatch and Google’s Wear OS is struggling for relevance, launching a new smartwatch seems like a foolhardy idea.（在Apple Watch领先于任何其他智能手表以及谷歌的Wear OS正在努力争取表现的时候，推出一款新的智能手表似乎是一个鲁莽的想法。）
—Business - Many blacks in South Africa believed that any effort by the black man to challenge the white man was foolhardy and doomed to failure; the white man was too smart and too strong.（南非的许多黑人认为，黑人挑战白人的任何努力都是莽撞的，注定要失败;白人太聪明，太强壮了。）
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