0 to be brave enough to do something difficult or dangerous, or to be rude or silly enough to do something that you have no right to do -- 敢于;胆敢;竟敢
[ + to infinitive ] He was under attack for daring to criticize the mayor. 他因为敢于批评市长而受到攻击。
I'd never dare (to) talk to my mother the way Brandon talks to his. 我永远也不敢像白兰度对他母亲讲话那样跟我母亲说话。
[ + infinitive without to ] I wouldn't dare have a party in my flat in case the neighbours complained. 我可不敢在公寓里举行聚会,以免邻居们不满。
[ + (to) infinitive ] Everyone in the office complains that he smells awful, but nobody dares (to) mention it to him. 办公室里人人都在抱怨说他身上有股难闻的气味,可是却又没人敢跟他说。
I was going to ask if his dog was better, but I didn't dare in case she had died. 我本想问问他的狗好些没有,可是又怕那狗已经死掉了,所以没敢问。
1 to ask someone to do something that involves risk -- 向…挑战;问…有没有胆量(做);(用激将法)激
2 something you do because someone dares you to -- 在激将法的作用下做出的事,应他人挑战而做出的事
He formulated the project of composing some; he dared to be a creator.
Ultimately the two societies, through confrontation and co-operation, remained more closely entwined than either would have cared or dared to admit.
The upshot is that anyone who dares to question any item in these tables has to redo the entire research for themselves.
I dare say specialists in other fields could find aspects to pick on too.
He brings in the nation-state, national literatures, the debts to revolutions and the shared, daring belief in progress.
Until very recently, indirect communication about 'the love that dares not speak its name' has been normative in most settings.
There are still small differences both between models and variables, so one would not dare to draw any conclusion, if the two patterns were close.
Without knowing more about the particulars -for instance, about engineers'concepts of pendulums - one cannot dare to give a definitive answer in this case.