pluck up courage

基本解释

Then her own lips lost their evenness, and she struggled long before she could pluck up courage to contemplate this new disaster.
说到这里，她自己的嘴唇也有点不自然起来，挣扎了好久，才能鼓起勇气来细想这个新灾难。
Given the huge benefits that liberalization could bring to India's 1.2 billion people, the government should pluck up courage and fling wide the gates.
考虑到自由化可能给12亿印度人民带来的巨大好处，印度政府应该鼓起勇气敞开国门。
Given the huge benefits that liberalisation could bring to India’s 1.2 billion people, the government should pluck up courage and fling wide the gates.
考虑到自由化可以给12亿印度民众带来的巨大利益，印度政府应当鼓足勇气、敞开大门。

Admittedly, however, bank managers have yet to pluck up courage to lend more than token amounts to deserving non-state firms—one reason why China's credit crunch has proved so persistent.
ECONOMIST: Problems left over from history
But will the politicians pluck up the courage to reform the system?
ECONOMIST: To have and to hold