If the Rocket Launch Slingshot didn’t do you in, test your nerves and your intestinal fortitude while strapped into the Tesla Hyperloop Motion Simulator, mimicking Musk’s transportation pods of the future in hyper-realistic style.From the 8th paragraph of this article at Attractions Magazine.
上記の文で、intestinal fortitudeの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "intestinal fortitude" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎によると、
胆力◆gutsの婉曲表現となっていますが、その他に、「肝っ玉」「根性」「気合」等と訳すことが可能です。
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:COURAGE, STAMINA
Examples
- the one person who had the intestinal fortitude to stand up and denounce the injustice of it all
- Pilots with considerable nerve and intestinal fortitude towed the targets while antiaircraft batteries practiced their marksmanship and target tracking and perfected their aerial gunnery procedures.
- What surprises me is that he had the intestinal fortitude to take on this job. Elizabeth Peters
- Others don’t have the intestinal fortitude to hold on for all of eternity. — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
- The fact that he's still trying for the championship is a tribute to his intestinal fortitude.
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