| 单词 | serious |
| 释义 | se·ri·ous I. 1. < we were serious to the point of solemnity — James Joyce > < her habitual expression was sedate and serious — Eric Linklater > < such a stern and serious face — Charles Kingsley > < will say facetious things in a most serious way — Harvey Breit > 2. a. < work which has prevented me from any serious correspondence — H.J.Laski > < settled down to the serious study of music — J.T.Howard > b. < serious books > < a serious play > c. < not a good work of art, but it is a serious work of art — Arnold Bennett > < serious novelists > < serious candidates > 3. a. < this observation was not serious. It was merely a trifle of affectionate malicious embroidery — Arnold Bennett > < no serious antiquarian researches have been carried out — Norman Douglas > < serious conversation > < a serious question > b. archaic c. < if there are serious fishermen in your party — Jackson Rivers > < a serious checker player > < serious drinkers > 4. a. < morning was sacred to serious tasks like sewing — Virginia Woolf > < a drama — on which a serious amount of care has been spent by many — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < take all the meals that would require any serious cooking in the nearest restaurant — G.B.Shaw > < took serious exception to the theory — Irving Babbitt > < the book is a serious disappointment — Geographical Journal > b. (1) < leaders began to raise serious objections — C.E.Black & E.C.Helmreich > < a serious problem > (2) < most of these systems are in a serious financial position — Economist > < so serious a lack of knowledge — C.D.Forde > < commodities which are not in serious competition with our dynamic home industry — R.S.Thoman > c. < a serious injury > < a serious accident > < serious warfare broke out — R.A.Billington > Synonyms: < a serious book is one which holds before us some image of society to consider and condemn — Lionel Trilling > < a serious student intent on learning > grave may imply both seriousness and dignity, often accompanied by suggestions of weighty interest and responsibilities < the slow, grave, simple, convinced tones with which she uttered the things that seemed to her the most worth while in life were more impressive than any arts of the orator — Havelock Ellis > < his gravest tone, the one he reserved for his rare appearances in the federal appellate courts — Louis Auchincloss > solemn may indicate deep, serious impressiveness or awesomeness with utter lack of levity < holding the attorney's letter in his hand, and with so solemn and important an air that his wife, always ingeniously on the watch for calamity, thought the worst was about to befall — W.M.Thackeray > < Sabbath was made a solemn day, meet only for preaching, praying, and Bible reading — C.A. & Mary Beard > somber applies to a melancholy or depressing gravity completely lacking in color, light, or cheer < the Scots, famed for somber Calvinism and its intellectual theologizing, did not expect to warm to the enthusiastic kind of religion — P.D.Whitney > < slowly she swept into the somber rhythms … beginning so softly that the music was scarcely audible, climbing steadily toward a climax — Louis Bromfield > sedate implies accustomed, decorous seriousness and studied absence of insouciance or lightness < a professional army man is as sedate as a lawyer — Green Peyton > < her habitual expression was sedate and serious, a permanent reproof, as it were, to those who were first attracted by the voluptuous quality of her admirable figure — Eric Linklater > staid indicates a settled, accustomed sedateness and self-restraint < most of the other cults had their public festivals, when the staid Roman citizen was repelled by the wild dances and the frenzied paeans — John Buchan > < the older city of staid residences, spotless streets, and a homogeneous population, all overhung with a quickly felt aura of contentment and satisfaction — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > sober may apply to grave controlling or subduing of emotion or to serious concentrating on purpose < this work is certainly of more sober mien than most of its author's others. It is very long and very serious, and both these qualities are certainly deliberate observances — Virgil Thomson > < I never saw a soberer holiday crowd … it was almost sabbatarian in its decorousness — Robert Lynd > earnest suggests steady sincerity and intentness of purpose < an earnest student > < many of the padres were scholars, and all were earnest in their endeavor to convert and civilize the natives — American Guide Series: Florida > II. < making serious money > < serious drinking > |
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