get up the courage

基本解释

I knew inside that he wasn't good for me from the beginning, but it took me eight years to get up the courage to leave.
一開始我就從心裡知道他對我不好，不過我仍然花費了八年的時間才鼓足勇氣離開他。
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'People who might be interested in you know where to find you when they finally get up the courage to ask you out,' she says.
她說，儅那些可能對你感興趣的人終於鼓足勇氣約你出去時，他們會知道去哪兒找你。
The world's most photographed is not the fall did not get up the courage to post, but never thought to get up.
世界上最可拍的是不是跌倒後沒有爬起來的勇氣，而是沒有想過要爬起來。
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