dour

GRE

英[?da??(r)]
美[d?r, da?r]

基本釋義

adj.
嚴(yán)厲的; 陰沉的; (巖石)嶙峋的; 頑強(qiáng)不屈

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

The game proved to be a dour struggle, with both men determined to win.

這次比賽結(jié)果成為一場(chǎng)惡戰(zhàn),因?yàn)閮蓚€(gè)人都志在必得。

牛津詞典

The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.

這座城市白天死氣沉沉、單調(diào)乏味,晚上就完全變了樣。

牛津詞典

No wonder he looked so dour.

難怪他看上去如此嚴(yán)厲。

...a dour, taciturn man...

冷冰冰、不茍言笑的男子

John popped his head round the dour.

約翰突然把頭轉(zhuǎn)向了門.

期刊摘選

When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.

當(dāng)談到更多的主流業(yè)務(wù), 員工是無生氣且無用的.

期刊摘選

They were exposed to dour resistance.

他們?cè)馐艿筋B強(qiáng)的抵抗.

期刊摘選

The goods are priced out dour reach.

東西太貴,我們買不起.

期刊摘選

Hitler admired the work of dour philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.

希特勒仰慕陰沉的哲學(xué)家如亞瑟·叔本華及費(fèi)里德里?!つ岵傻淖髌?

期刊摘選

The proverbially dour New England Puritan.

一個(gè)抑郁的新英格蘭清教徒.

期刊摘選

Once dour Belfast had been transformed.

一度死氣沉沉的貝爾法斯特已大為改觀.

期刊摘選

No wonder he looked so dour.

難怪他看上去如此嚴(yán)厲。

辭典例句

The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.

這座城市白天死氣沉沉、單調(diào)乏味,晚上就完全變了樣。

《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》

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"- T.S.Eliot

    "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"- J.M.Barrie

  • 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"- Bruce Bliven

    "a sour temper"

    "a sullen crowd"

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