feats
feats — noun
- featssingular
- featsesplural
1. a difficult action or achievement that shows great skill, strength, bravery, or
a difficult action or achievement that shows great skill, strength, bravery, or cleverness
Carlos trained for six months to finish the feat of running a marathon on crutches.
collocation: feat + of + [activity]
The engineer described the suspension bridge as a remarkable feat of modern design.
collocation: remarkable feat + of + [field]
Saving enough money to buy a house was no mean feat for the young couple.
Climbing Everest without bottled oxygen is a feat of endurance that few athletes can match.
The gymnast performed an incredible physical feat that earned a perfect score from the judges.
- achievement
more general; any positive result reached through effort
- accomplishment
similar weight to achievement, often with a sense of completion
- exploit
adds a note of daring or heroism, often in adventures or battles
- masterstroke
a single very clever action that turns a situation decisively
文法句型
adjective + feat
feat + of + [quality/noun]
用法筆記
Feat is often used in the plural form feats, especially with modifiers such as remarkable, impressive, extraordinary, or amazing. The singular form is also correct and common. This is the only modern noun sense; historical adjective senses (meaning 'neat' or 'dexterous') are now archaic.