英语释义

• 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

• 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"

• 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"

片语

dour men倔强的男人

tight紧的；密封的；绷紧的；麻烦的；严厉的；没空的；吝啬的

somewhat dour沉闷的

harsh(Harsh) 哈什（人名）

heavyad 大量地；笨重地

hard努力的；硬的；困难的；辛苦的；确实的；严厉的；猛烈的；冷酷无情的

dour pour达斡尔族倒

Castle Dour阴郁堡内部

Rabat dour灯罩

severe严峻的；严厉的；剧烈的；苛刻的

o dour气味；声誉

dour determination她的

Dar Dour伊拉克恶搞模仿秀节目

dour a sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa

同义词： durra doura dourah Egyptian corn Indian millet Guinea corn

英汉例句

• in the best bit of the book mr prince skilfully depicts the atmosphere of the track: bright silks, dour faces, gleaming boots and saddles, the tangle of bridles and bits, the palpable tension.

  这本书的出众之处在于，普林斯描述了赛事的氛围：光彩夺目的丝绸，一丝不茍的面孔，闪闪发光的皮靴和马鞍，乱七八糟的缰绳，显而易见的紧张气息。

• the dour outlooks come on the same day that the national association of realtors said home sales reached a 15-year low in june , dousing hopes that the industry had reached a bottoming point.

  同日，严峻的形势还表现为全国房地产经纪人协会说六月份房产销售达到15年来的最低点，使人们认为房地产已经地质谷底的希望破灭。

• but whereas finance chiefs may be marginally less dour than in previous quarters, they are continuing to slash earnings forecasts and are speeding up plans for layoffs and spending cuts.

  尽管财务总监们比起前几个季度，信心稍有恢复，但他们仍然削减了收入预期，同时加紧制定裁员及降低开销的相关计划。

• 「soldier of love」 is slightly too dour for its own good, though the band is getting better at framing sade’s voice, which is hard to tire of.

  《爱的战士》本身有一点阴沉，尽管乐队在衬托沙黛的嗓音方面日渐成熟，让人百听不厌。

• in the end, most of the command ended up in sleepy and dour but prosperous southern germany, perhaps the least african place in the world.

  繁荣的德国南部常常给人留下迟钝和缄默的印象，那里也许是世界上非洲人分布最少的地区。

• the dmz itself resembles a lush nature reserve - provided one ignores the long stretches of barbed wire and dour soldiers in lookout towers.

  如果你能对长长的铁丝网和观察哨里绷着脸的士兵可以视而不见的话，非军事区看起来倒像是植被茂盛的自然保护区。

• witness both types of creases on the jowly countenance of joe lieberman; these tend to give one a dour aspect (which, in the case of lieberman, seems apt).

  在下巴宽厚的乔·利伯曼的脸上我们可以同时看到这两种皱纹，而这会给人以严厉的感觉（不过，利伯曼倒是形神合一。）

• his dour pragmatic side is well-suited to delivering bad news and explaining how to deal with it.

  他寡言实干的一面十分适合发布坏消息然后告诉人们怎么去解决。

• eastleigh is hardly a tourist town—a dour bronze railwayman is its main public monument—but it has a brilliant formula for incubating new businesses.

  伊斯特雷格并非一个旅游城市——一座阴郁的铁路工人青铜雕像是它主要的公共纪念雕塑——但是在培养新办企业方面，伊斯特雷格确有聪明办法。

• since the 1960s, cubans have been encouraged to see fidel as the idealist, and raúl, long the defence minister, as the dour enforcer.

  自1960年代后，古巴人已经被鼓励把菲德尔看成为一个理想主义者，而劳尔，作为长时间的国防部长，则是一个沉闷的政策执行者。

• his strength, which the g20 meeting displayed, is dour pragmatism.

  20国集团领导人峰会上所展示出来的布朗的力量，实际上是寄予厚望的实用主义。

• the comrade in charge, a rather dour middle-aged woman in a white blouse, made the phone connection for me and then handed me the phone.

  主管的那位同志是位身穿白衬衫、表情严肃的中年妇女。她接通了电话，把话筒递给了我。

• last week the normally dour and pragmatic german chancellor, angela merkel, announced that the eu faces "perhaps the toughest hour since the second world war.

  上周，一向倔强务实的德国总理安吉拉·默克尔宣布欧盟「面临的局面可能是二战以来最严峻的。

• dar dour (the iraqi tv show spoof)

  dardour（伊拉克恶搞模仿秀节目）

• he is a proverbially dour new england puritan.

  他是个众所周知的抑郁的新英格兰清教徒。

• mary lou dinardo checked three times to make sure: was that a smiley face at the end of the latest e-mail from her most dour client?

  当玛丽连续看了三遍之后才敢确认：最后那个笑脸确实是来自她一个平时作风很严肃呆板的客户。

• january jones while retro-cool, this lanvin gown was just a little too dour for such a festive night.

  这件复古冷酷到底的晚装对这样一个盛会来说过于严肃。

• under coach dunga, there has been criticism that a side containing such stylish and skilful players as dani alves, robinho and of course kaka himself, is playing for dour 1-0 victories.

  在主教练邓加的带领下，人们一直在质疑拥有像丹尼·阿尔维斯、罗比尼奥，当然还有卡卡在内的如此风格华丽、技术精湛的球员，却要通过丑陋务实的1-0赢得比赛。

• there has been an outbreak of tory “sleaze」; boris johnson, the conservative mayor of london elected in may, still seems somewhat gaffe-prone; maybe recession would play to mr brown’s dour strengths.

  保守党曾爆有「不光彩的事」；五月当选伦敦市市长的保守党分子鲍里斯约翰逊仍然常常丑态百出；或许保守党的后退可以与布朗的冷酷有得一比。

• the visit seemed to cheer everybody up, providing a welcome relief from washington's sour politics and dour work ethic.

  女王的此次访美似乎让诸位官员从华府严峻的政局和严苛的工作规范中暂得解放，众人深感振奋。

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