dour
英['daʊə(r)] 美['daʊər]
"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"
"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"
"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"
1.严厉的;冷冰冰的
If you describe someone asdour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly.
e.g. ...adour, taciturn man...
冷冰冰、不苟言笑的男子
e.g. No wonder he looked sodour.
难怪他看上去如此严厉。
1. 杜尔：位于比法边境的比利时杜尔(dour)地区的瓦洛尼(Wal-lonic)镇上,盖着许多现代化的住宅,克里斯蒂娜.勒格朗(ChristinaLegrand)和雷吉纳尔.勒格朗(ReginaldLegrand)是一对年轻夫妇,他们有个14个月的婴儿吉尧姆,他们到这个镇上住了已经有一年多了.
2. dour
2. 不爱讲话的：Douglas 道格拉斯 |dour 不爱讲话的 |dourine 媾疫
3. 阴郁的,严厉的,不爱讲话的：Jubilant 欢呼的,喜气洋洋的 |dour 阴郁的,严厉的,不爱讲话的 | Pert 无力的,冒失的;整齐时髦的
4. 严厉的,脸色阴沉的：doddering 蹒跚 |dour 严厉的,脸色阴沉的 | draconian 严厉的,严酷的
The game proved to be a dour struggle, with both men determined to win.
这次比赛结果成为一场恶战，因为两个人都志在必得。
The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.
这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。
No wonder he looked so dour.
难怪他看上去如此严厉。
...a dour, taciturn man...
冷冰冰、不苟言笑的男子
John popped his head round the dour.
约翰突然把头转向了门.
When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.
当谈到更多的主流业务, 员工是无生气且无用的.
They were exposed to dour resistance.
他们遭受到顽强的抵抗.
The goods are priced out dour reach.
东西太贵,我们买不起.
Hitler admired the work of dour philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.
希特勒仰慕阴沉的哲学家如亚瑟·叔本华及费里德里希·尼采的作品.
The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
一个抑郁的新英格兰清教徒.
Once dour Belfast had been transformed.
一度死气沉沉的贝尔法斯特已大为改观.
No wonder he looked so dour.
难怪他看上去如此严厉。
The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.
这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。
He led a dour and hard lyfe.
出自：J. DalrympleTostig is a man..dour and haughty.
出自：LyttonNever again would dour fields lie Quite so forbidding, stones be so bare.
出自：F. Ormsby