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dour

英 ['dʊə; 'daʊə] 美['daʊr]
  • adj. 严厉的;顽强的;阴沉的;不爱讲话的
  • n. (Dour)人名;(法)杜尔

英英释意


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"