dour

  擴展辭彙  
['daʊə(r)]     ['daʊər]    
  • adj. 嚴厲的;不愛講話的;沉沉的
dourly dourer dourest dourness
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dour的英文翻譯是什麼意思,詞典釋義與在線翻譯:

英英釋義

Adjective:
  1. stubbornly unyielding;

    "dogged persistence"
    "dour determination"
    "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"
    "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"
    "men tenacious of opinion"

  2. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;

    "a dour, self-sacrificing life"
    "a forbidding scowl"
    "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"
    "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"

  3. showing a brooding ill humor;

    "a dark scowl"
    "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
    "a glum, hopeless shrug"
    "he sat in moody silence"
    "a morose and unsociable manner"
    "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"
    "a sour temper"
    "a sullen crowd"

dour的用法和樣例:

例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)
  1. I'm sick of dour faces staring at me from the T. V. tower.
    我厭倦了電視台里瞪著我的那些嚴厲的面孔。
  2. He was a silent, precise man with a dour nature and a hard Aberdonian accent.
    他是一個沉默寡言、一絲不苟的人,性格倔強,帶有很重的阿伯丁港的口音。
  3. She always pretends to be dour, in fact, she's not.
    她總表現的不愛講話,事實卻相反。
  4. When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.
    當它涉及更多主流的服務時職員就會變得陰鬱和無助。

辭彙搭配

經典引文

  • He led a dour and hard lyfe.

    出自: J. Dalrymple
  • Tostig is a man..dour and haughty.

    出自: Lytton
  • Never again would dour fields lie Quite so forbidding, stones be so bare.

    出自: F. Ormsby

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