词汇释义
dour TEM8 GRE
UK /dʊər/ US /dʊr/
adj, If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly.严厉的，冷冰冰的
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外刊例句
1. And while other candidates are offering dour competence as an answer to Mayor de Blasio’s perceived inattention, Mr. Yang is offering joyful enthusiasm.(New York Times)
2. “The tone of next week’s ... meeting is likely to be on the dour side,” said Karim Basta, chief economist at III Capital Management.(Reuters)
3. The potential loss of that critical cash — leaving some Americans with much smaller unemployment checks — may send some workers scrambling this summer to try to find new gigs in a dour market.(Washington Post)
4. Stocks pulled back sharply after his comments, which were not the only dour ones from Fed policymakers on Tuesday.(Reuters)
5. The moves extended a dour start to the month that began on Friday with bleak U.S. data and the threat of fresh trade-war hostilities between the world’s two biggest economies.(Reuters)
6. The S&P 500 fell about 4 percent on Friday, after rising earlier in the day, as the mood grew increasingly dour.(New York Times)
7. When Barack Obama was president, it was Democrats who felt good about the economy and Republicans who were dour; as soon as Mr. Trump took over, partisan views flipped.(New York Times)
8. The grocer was on the brink of an initial public offering in 2015 but shelved the plan in the face of a dour profit forecast by rival Walmart Inc.(Wall Street Journal)
9. The Freedom Caucus huddled late Tuesday to discuss the legislation, and Meadows emerged dour about its prospects.(Washington Post)
10. The mood among Republicans turned more dour than that of Democrats in December 2009 for the first time in 13 years.(BusinessWeek)
11. Many retail stocks, which were sold off recently on a dour outlook, were up slightly; The Warehouse was up 0.4% and Pumpkin Patch added 0.6%.(Wall Street Journal)
12. Kleinhenz offered that the tax cuts might offset some of this dour sentiment, although such savings are often tucked away rather than spent.(Washington Post)
词汇搭配
dour people
词汇家族
dourly, dourness
词汇来源
mid-14c., "severe" (of grief); late 14c., of men, "bold, stern, fierce," a word from Scottish and northern England dialect, probably directly from Latin durus "hard," from PIE *dru-ro-, suffixed variant form of root *deru- "be firm, solid, steadfast." Sense of "gloomy, sullen" is late 15c.
近义词
serious, unfriendly, austere, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim, gruff, intimidating, lowering (also louring), rough, rugged, severe, stark, steely, stern, ungentle
反义词
friendly, kind, amiable, benign, benignant, gentle, mild, nonintimidating, tender
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