词组 | vigor |
释义 | VIGOR do something with a vengeance to do something with vigor; to do something energetically as if one were angry with it. (Folksy.)Bob is building that fence with a vengeance.Mary is really weeding her garden with a vengeance. pep someone or something up to make someone or something more sprightly and active.I need a bottle of pop to pep me up.The third act of this play needs something to pep it up. How about a few good jokes? vim and vigorAn abundance or excessive amount of boisterous, youthful energy, enthusiasm, or vitality. For all their vim and vigor, these underdogs just didn't have the skill necessary to beat the returning champions. It took having kids of my own to remember how full vim and vigor a child can be at 6 AM. Nothing like a swim in the brisk Atlantic ocean to fill you with vim and vigor first thing in the morning. vim and vigorCliché energy; enthusiasm. Show more vim and vigor! Let us know you're alive. She's sure got a lot of vim and vigor. vim and vigorEbullient vitality and energy, as in He was full of vim and vigor after that swim. This redundant expression uses both vim and vigor in the sense of "energy" or "strength." vim and vigor n. energy; enthusiasm; moxie. Show more vim and vigor! Let us know you’re alive. vim and vigorEnormous vitality and energy. This alliterative phrase is actually redundant. The noun vim is thought to come from the Latin vis, meaning strength and energy, and became American slang around the mid-1800s. Vigor, on the other hand, has meant energetic strength since the 1300s. vim and vigorFull of vitality and enthusiasm. Here's another redundant phase : “vim” comes from a Latin word for “stength,” while “vigor” means the same thing. But alliteration carries the day, so if you're full of vim and vigor, you're hot to trot and go to go. A similar expression is “piss 'n' vinegar,” the latter word having long been used to mean a sharp vitality. |
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