dour
英 ['d??; 'da??]
美['da?r]
- adj. 嚴厲的；頑強的；陰沉的；不愛講話的
- n. (Dour)人名；(法)杜爾
英英釋意
- 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"- T.S.Eliot
- "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"- J.M.Barrie
- 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"- Bruce Bliven
- "a sour temper"
- "a sullen crowd"