adj. 〔苏格兰语〕 1.阴郁的;严厉的。 2.倔强的,执拗的。 3.(土地)荒瘠不毛的,(岩石)嶙峋的。 短语和例子 a dour warning 严厉的警告。 adv. -ly ,-ness n.
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" 同义词:dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen,
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 同义词:forbidding, grim,
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" 同义词:dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding,
例句与用法
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They were exposed to dour resistance 他们遭受到顽强的抵抗
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A survey of dour ethnic concepts 达斡尔族伦理思想综论
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The person you are addressing is rather dour and matter - of - fact 与你联系的人相当顽固并一副公事公办的姿态。
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A woman wanders from job to job , getting fired just for her dour look 要捍卫爱情,就唯有牺牲理想,变卖自我,来一次没哭声的抉择。
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He managed to continue work till nine o clock , and then marched dumb and dour to his chamber 他干活直干到九点钟,然后不声不响,执拗地走进他的卧房。
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To a western eye , [ they ] seem poorly dressed , ill - groomed , dour and preoccupied ( peter lewis ) 在西方人看来,显得似乎衣着寒碜,不修边幅,桀骜不驯(彼得?刘易斯) 。
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In spite dour warnings , he decided to invest in , that venture . i suppose it ' s case of fools rushing in where angels fear to tread 尽管我们都警告他还是决定投资那桩冒险生意,我想这就是“蠢人爱鲁莽行事” 。
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The visit seemed to cheer everybody up , providing a welcome relief from washington ' s sour politics and dour work ethic 这次访问似乎使所有人都非常振奋,并给华盛顿陈腐的政治和阴沉的职业道德提供了一个可喜的放松机会。
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Istanbul was a bit of a freaky game . do you think this one is going to revert back to the dour old english - italian one - goal - in - it affair 伊斯坦布尔决赛有点偏离常规。你认为这一次将恢复到保守的英格兰意大利式一球决胜?
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The dour recluse still there he has his cake and the douce youngling , minion of pleasure , phedo s toyable fair hair . eh . . . i just eh . . 倔强的隐士依然在那儿呢他把点心拿在乎里535 ,还有那个文静的小伙子,小乖乖536 ,菲多那囝囝般的金发。