sour

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaʊ.ə/    美 /ˈsaʊ.ɚ/|/ˈsæɔ.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sensation of a sour taste. countable,uncountable
  2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. countable,uncountable
  3. Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. broadly,countable,uncountable
  4. A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste. countable,uncountable
    — “You know I like them candies, especially the lemon sours.”
  5. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. countable,uncountable
    — For many Years of Sorrow can dispense; A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
  6. The acidic solution used in souring fabric. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make sour. transitive
    — Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
  2. To become sour. intransitive
    — So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
  3. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. transitive
    — To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
  4. To become disenchanted. intransitive
    — We broke up after our relationship soured.
  5. To make (soil) cold and unproductive. transitive
    — stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil
  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
  7. To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Tasting of acidity.
    — Lemons have a sour taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
    — Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
    — His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
  4. Hostile or unfriendly.
    — He gave me a sour look.
  5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
    — sour land
  6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
    — sour gas smells like rotten eggs
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
    — Let me embrace thee, sour adversity
  8. Off-pitch, out of tune.
    — Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music).

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
acetose acetous acid acidulent sour tart
反义词
sweet
上位词
gustable
下位词
lemon lemonish lemonlike lemony limelike limey picklesome vinegarish vinegarlike vinegary acescent acidulous sourish
衍生词
fine and dandy like sour candy for sour apples go sour hot and sour soup leave a sour taste in one's mouth New York sour oversour sorrel sourball sour beer sourbelly sourberry sourbread sourbush sour cherry sour corn sour cream sour crude sour diesel sourdough souren sourfaced sourfaux sour fig sourful sour gas sour gourd sour grapes sour grass sourgrass sour gum sourhead sourhearted sour honey sourish sour krout sourly sour mash sour milk sour mix sourness sour note sour on sourpuss sour puss sour shchi soursop sour stomach sourstuff sour-sweet sour tooth sourweed sourwood sour worm sweet-and-sour sweet-and-sour sauce the grapes are sour anyway amaretto sour Boston sour laundry sour pisco sour whiskey sour besour unsour
相关词
sourness

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *súHros
Proto-Germanic *sūraz
Proto-West Germanic *sūr
Old English sūr
Middle English sour
English sour
From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).
Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sur (“sour”), French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),
Polish ser (“cheese”),
Czech sýr (“cheese”),
Slovak syr (“cheese”),
Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),
Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),
Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *súHros
Proto-Germanic *sūraz
Proto-West Germanic *sūr
Old English sūr
Middle English sour
English sour
From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).
Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sur (“sour”), French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),
Polish ser (“cheese”),
Czech sýr (“cheese”),
Slovak syr (“cheese”),
Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),
Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),
Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *súHros
Proto-Germanic *sūraz
Proto-West Germanic *sūr
Old English sūr
Middle English sour
English sour
From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).
Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sur (“sour”), French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),
Polish ser (“cheese”),
Czech sýr (“cheese”),
Slovak syr (“cheese”),
Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),
Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),
Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
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