dour

英 ['daʊə(r)] 美 ['daʊər]

• adj. 严厉的；不爱讲话的；沉沉的

英英释义

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"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. I'm sick of dour faces staring at me from the T. V. tower.
   我厌倦了电视台里瞪着我的那些严厉的面孔。
2. He was a silent, precise man with a dour nature and a hard Aberdonian accent.
   他是一个沉默寡言、一丝不苟的人，性格倔强，带有很重的阿伯丁港的口音。
3. She always pretends to be dour, in fact, she's not.
   她总表现的不爱讲话，事实却相反。
4. When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.
   当它涉及更多主流的服务时职员就会变得阴郁和无助。

经典引文

• 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

词汇搭配

• War dour-street English 古腔古调的英语,拟古...

近反义词

【近义词】

• black 黑的
• grim 严厉的
• sour 酸的
• severe 严厉的
• unfriendly 不友好的
• stern 严厉的
• hard-faced (=hard-favor...
• harsh 粗糙的
• determined 坚定的
• stubborn 顽固的
• set 放置
• purposeful 有目的的
• resolute 坚决的
• resolved 下定决心的
• dogged 顽固的
• moody 易怒的
• morose 郁闷的
• persistent 坚持的
• pertinacious 执拗的
• forbidding 可怕的
• unyielding 不屈的
• glowering 动词glower的现在进...
• tenacious 抓紧的
• sullen 愠怒的
• glum 闷闷不乐的
• saturnine 忧郁的
• dark 黑暗的