ˈdau̇(-ə)r ˈdu̇r
dourly如何读
dourly是什么意思
- adj.严厉的;不爱讲话的;沉沉的
dourly英英释义
- 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"
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.
dourly 同义词
1 严厉地
smart strictly sharply keenly cruelly starkly roundly sternly stringently humorlessly scathingly unsparingly austerely heavily roughly severely harshly soundly
2 阴郁地
3 阴沉
tenebrific gray dull moody melancholy gloomy lowering dreary morbid somber dusky sullen dour sunless sulky mirthless clouded doleful sepulchral lowery saturnine tenebrous disconsolate drearisome sombrely duskily dullness cloudiness sullenness
6 严厉
fulminous hard blue firm smart tough exact severe sharp crucial strict harsh bitter rigid imperative stern grim exacting pungent grueling astringent dour inclement unsparing strictly sharply keenly cruelly starkly roundly sternly stringently humorlessly scathingly unsparingly austerely hardness rigor astringency stringency starkness inclemency humorlessness austereness severeness hard as iron stiff stringent uncompromising repressive austere heavy-handed scorching uncharitable heavily roughly severely harshly soundly severity austerity toughness harshness asperity grimness sternness