dour的中文翻譯是什麼意思
dour
US/dʊr, daʊr/
UK/ˈdaʊə(r)/
adj. 嚴厲的; 陰沉的; （岩石）嶙峋的; 頑強不屈
dour的柯林斯釋義
ADJ-GRADED嚴厲的;冷冰冰的
If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly.
...a dour, taciturn man...
冷冰冰、不苟言笑的男子
No wonder he looked so dour.
難怪他看上去如此嚴厲。
dour的英文釋義
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
dour的場景例句
John popped his head round the dour.
約翰突然把頭轉向了門.
When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.
當談到更多的主流業務, 員工是無生氣且無用的.
They were exposed to dour resistance.
他們遭受到頑強的抵抗.
The goods are priced out dour reach.
東西太貴,我們買不起.
Hitler admired the work of dour philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.
希特勒仰慕陰沉的哲學家如亞瑟·叔本華及費裡德里希·尼采的作品.