dour

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdʊə/|/ˈdaʊə/    美 /ˈdʊɹ/|/ˈdaʊɚ/|/ˈdaʊ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of daur. alt-of,alternative
    — The detachment that went out the day before yesterday on a dour have not returned: the party consisted of 200 Highlanders and 100 Sikhs, also twenty horsemen.
形容词 adj.
  1. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
    — The principal reason is that, in competition with modern road vehicles running over motorways, B.R. has a dour struggle to match the performance of its rivals cost-wise.
  2. Unyielding and obstinate.
  3. Expressing gloom or melancholy.

词形变化

dourer comparative more dour comparative dourest superlative most dour superlative dours plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dourly dourness

词源

Borrowed from Scots dour, possibly from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), via Middle Irish dúr.
Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.
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