presence of mind

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpɹɛzn̩s əv ˈmaɪnd/    美 /ˌpɹɛz(ə)ns əv ˈmaɪnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Focused alertness, good sense, quick-thinking resourcefulness, or stability of feeling and thought, especially in spite of circumstances which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging. uncountable
    — [A]s you are to hear the moſt unexpected and ſurprizing thing that perhaps ever befel any Family in the VVorld, I beg you to promiſe me you vvill receive it vvith Compoſure and a Preſence of Mind ſuitable to a Man of Senſe.

词源

Calque of Latin praesentia animī, from praesentia (“state of being present, presence”) + animī (the genitive singular of animus (“intellect, mind”)).
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