同事小黄今年都快四十了还一直单身，春节后他突然同意去相亲了，这让我们都大吃一惊。外教 Tony 便故作深沉地分析道：
He doesn't usually go on blind dates, but he took a leap in the dark and agreed to meet Janney's friend for dinner...
It's so weird!
Tony 这句话的意思是“他通常不会去相亲呀，但这回他冒险同意与詹尼的朋友共进晚餐。这也忒奇怪啦!” 在这句话里有一个很有意思的短语今天就来跟大家分享一下~"leap in the dark"，从字面儿上看是"在黑暗中跳跃"，但细一想其实很好理解，因为这个"blind date-相亲"嘛本来就是一个蒙着来的举动，所以这个短语引申的含义就是指"莽撞行事的冒险举动"，就也就咱们常说的"轻举妄动或铤而走险"啦！
leap in the dark
轻举妄动，莽撞举动；莽撞行事；鲁莽；冒险；贸然行动；铤而走险
【En】
Something you do without knowing what will happen as a result.
做一些你不知道结果会怎样的事情。
If you take a leap in the dark or a leap into the unknown, you do something without having any previous experience in that activity or knowledge of it.
如果你在黑暗中跳跃或是跳入未知，意思是你在没有任何经验或知识的情况下做某事。
An act that is risky because its consequences cannot be foreseen.
因其后果无法预见而具有风险的行为。
A chance that one takes despite being uncertain of the consequences or outcome.
一个人不顾后果或因结果的不确定性而冒的风险。
● Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark.
谨慎的人是不会轻举妄动的。
● Once more he's making a leap into the unknown without a plan.
他又一次毫无计划地跳入未知世界（莽撞行事）。
【Scenario Example 场景示例】
● You took a leap in the dark in going into partnership with this strange man.
你与这陌生人合作实在是莽撞。
● The experiment was a leap in the dark.
这项实验是一次鲁莽的冒险。
● Jim is fond of a leap in the dark.
吉姆喜欢冒险行事。
● Given today's high divorce rate, he considered marriage a leap in the dark.
考虑到今天的高离婚率，他认为结婚是一次冒险。
● Their move to Latin America was a leap in the dark.
他们迁居拉丁美洲是件冒险的事。
● It will be a leap in the dark to make an important decision without investigation.
不进行调查就作出重要决定，是在铤而走险。
● Voters have taken a leap in the dark by electing outsiders with little or no political experience.
选民们投给了缺乏或没有政治经验的局外人，这是在铤而走险。
● What I had before me wasn't a rational choice: it was a leap in the dark.
摆在我面前的不是一个理性的选择: 这是一次冒险。
● I had very little information about the company, so writing to them was a leap in the dark.
我对该公司了解得很少，所以给他们写信有些莽撞。
● The government is being accused of taking a leap in the dark as it prepares to radically change the education system.
人们指责政府准备从根本上改变教育体系，这是在冒险。
● Don't take their hand and take a leap in the dark.
别带着他们轻举妄动。
● If these issues aren't resolved, both sides in this referendum will be asking voters to take a leap in the dark.
如果这些问题得不到解决，这场公投的双方都将要求选民冒险。
● Critics also worry that compassionate conservatism is a leap in the dark without any empirical evidence to back it up.
批评人士还担心，富于同情心的保守主义是在没有任何经验证据支持的情况下迈出的一步。
● The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark.
希望在下周成为财政大臣的人，肯定不会准备贸然行动。
● Ten minutes later - another leap in the dark - he offered the appointment to Churchill.
十分钟后——又是一次冒险——他向邱吉尔提出了任命。
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