dourness

adj. 嚴厲的；不愛講話的；沉沉的

英語翻譯

Adjective:

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\\\"
\\\"men tenacious of opinion\\\"
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\\\"
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\\\"
\\\"a sour temper\\\"
\\\"a sullen crowd\\\"

造句

用作形容詞(adj.)

I\\\'m sick of dour faces staring at me from the T. V. tower.
我厭倦了電視臺里瞪著我的那些嚴厲的面孔。
He was a silent, precise man with a dour nature and a hard Aberdonian accent.
他是一個沉默寡言、一絲不茍的人，性格倔強，帶有很重的阿伯丁港的口音。
She always pretends to be dour, in fact, she\\\'s not.
她總表現的不愛講話，事實卻相反。
When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.
當它涉及更多主流的服務時職員就會變得陰郁和無助。

常用短語

組詞

He led a dour and hard lyfe.
出自：J. Dalrymple
Tostig is a man..dour and haughty.
出自：Lytton
Never again would dour fields lie Quite so forbidding, stones be so bare.
出自：F. Ormsby

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