dourly如何读

ˈdau̇(-ə)r ˈdu̇r

dourly是什么意思

  • adj.严厉的;不爱讲话的;沉沉的

dourly英英释义

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"
    "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"

  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"
    "a sour temper"
    "a sullen crowd"

dourly词源英文解释

Middle English, from Latin durus hard — more at during

The first known use of dour was in the 15th century

dourly儿童词典英英释义

dowdyadjective

not neatly or well dressed or cared for

not stylish

douseverb

to stick into water

to throw a liquid on

to put out : extinguish

douse the lights

douseverb

to stick into water

to throw a liquid on

to put out : extinguish

douse the lights

douradjective

looking or being stern or sullen

dourly 例句

1 She had a dour expression on her face.

2 Mike muttered dourly, moving back behind the counter.

3 MacGregor looked at him dourly, disgust and anger on his big red face.

4 Walking past them, you might reasonably worry that you’re about to be harangued, dourly, from the stage, where Ms. Oh stands on a soapbox as the crowd filters in.

5 And Juan’s unmarried sisters — two eerie, faceless figures swathed entirely in black — stand at the table, too, dourly drumming eating utensils against the plates.

6 Always dourly confident, never showing a trace of doubt about his lifetime achievements, Mubarak never seemed to grasp the depth of popular hatred he had accumulated in 30 years.

7 He studied the hooting crowd dourly before taking a deep bow.

8 Stared dourly back toward the high board fence that surrounded the nudists.

9 He led a dour and hard lyfe.

10 "How many children do you propose to turn loose all over the ship?" inquired the First Lieutenant dourly.

11 The others came in, Howell dourly and Graves wiping his moustache.

12 "About whether you're going to marry me or not," said Captain Ross, dourly.

13 A fantastic miniseries has arrived that at last fully tells the painful history of being gay in modern America — and no, silly, it’s not ABC’s dourly dutiful “When We Rise.”

14 He said nothing, but when he saw my eye upon him he gazed dourly toward his approaching rival and tapped a weather-beaten brow with one stubby finger.

15 This night, however, as he sat dourly smoking, and taking every now and again a long pull at his handy pannikin, it seemed to set him brooding over things and at times he grew disputatious.

16 We followed the canal’s flagstone towpath for the rest of the day, past granite towns that sat dourly beneath gunmetal clouds.

17 Goldikova ran on dourly but it is easy to understand why Paco Boy's backers felt they were unlucky when she held on by a neck.

18 A group of mostly Mormon protesters stood dourly outside the packed house.

19 He positively refused, he announced dourly, even in the face of Susan's demands, to make an Uncle Tom's Cabin parade of himself and Arabella by going trolloping up the church aisle with her.

20 Never again would dour fields lie Quite so forbidding, stones be so bare.

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