dour

• adj. 严厉的；顽强的；阴沉的；不爱讲话的
• n. (Dour)人名；(法)杜尔

来自拉丁语durus, 硬的，词源同endure, tree. 引申词义冷酷的。

dour (adj.)

mid-14c., "severe," from Scottish and northern England dialect, probably from Latin durus "hard" (see endure); sense of "gloomy, sullen" is late 15c.

1. The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.

这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。

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2. No wonder he looked so dour.

难怪他看上去如此严厉。

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3. When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.

当谈到更多的主流业务, 员工是无生气且无用的.

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4. The person you are addressing is rather dour and matter - of - fact.

与你联系的人相当顽固并一副公事公办的姿态.

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5. John popped his head round the dour.

约翰突然把头转向了门.

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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"

The game proved to be a dour struggle, with both men determined to win.

这次比赛结果成为一场恶战，因为两个人都志在必得。

牛津词典

The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.

这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。

牛津词典

No wonder he looked so dour.

难怪他看上去如此严厉。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a dour, taciturn man...

冷冰冰、不苟言笑的男子

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John popped his head round the dour.

约翰突然把头转向了门.

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When it comes to more mainstream services, staff are dour and unhelpful.

当谈到更多的主流业务, 员工是无生气且无用的.

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They were exposed to dour resistance.

他们遭受到顽强的抵抗.

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The goods are priced out dour reach.

东西太贵,我们买不起.

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Hitler admired the work of dour philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.

希特勒仰慕阴沉的哲学家如亚瑟·叔本华及费里德里希·尼采的作品.

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The proverbially dour New England Puritan.

一个抑郁的新英格兰清教徒.

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Once dour Belfast had been transformed.

一度死气沉沉的贝尔法斯特已大为改观.

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No wonder he looked so dour.

难怪他看上去如此严厉。

辞典例句

The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.

这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》