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发音：[ˈmetlsəm]
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例句：
- Mettlesome is applied to describe someone or something having high-spirited energy and movement or displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness.
- He had spent his early days in an atmosphere charged with recollections of a brilliant era and a mettlesome, laughter-loving people.
- Many classic children’s books feature mettlesome main characters, like Huckleberry Finn and Ann of Green Gables.
- We had often taken horses into the woods in that way, and expected to have no trouble this time; although these horses were young, they were not high-spirited or mettlesome.
- Juliet’s mettlesome temper became the engine that fueled the drama, above all in Act III, in which she seldom leaves the stage.
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解释：
- Mettlesome这个单词为形容词，其表示“having high-spirited energy and movement or displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness”这一含义，即“刚烈的/精力旺盛的/有活力的/耐力的”，与animated/energetic/passionate这些单词构成近义词，其既可以用于人也可以用于物。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The weather does its best to massacre his New Yorkers, tormenting them with frigid winters and suffocating summers; their response to the vital challenge is to show off the mettlesome resilience of the human animal.（天气尽其所能“屠杀”它的纽约人，用寒冷的冬天和令人窒息的夏天折磨他们;他们对这一重要挑战的回应是展示人类动物的坚韧不拔的韧性。）
—Society - We had often taken horses into the woods in that way, and expected to have no trouble this time; although these horses were young, they were not high-spirited or mettlesome.（我们经常这样牵马进树林，希望这次不会有麻烦;这些马虽然年轻，但并不昂扬，也不刚烈。）
—Life - Many classic children’s books feature mettlesome main characters, like Huckleberry Finn and Ann of Green Gables. （许多经典的儿童读物都以有活力的主角为特色，如哈克贝利·芬恩和绿山墙的安。）
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