| 单词 | sour |
| 释义 | sour I. 1. < sour pickles > < sour green apples for pies > — compare bitter, salt, sweet 2. a. (1) < sour beer > < sour milk > < the smell of wet clothing is sour — Norman Mailer > (2) < the sour process for manufacturing starch > b. < sour breath > < a dense drift of dead nettles — their sour odor haunting the air — Walter de la Mare > c. (1) < private lending institutions unloaded their sour investments on the Treasury — Harrison Smith > — usually used with go or turn < not enough people rented them and the project went sour — Reporter > < a proposal which quickly turned sour even in the Republican camp — Economist > (2) < halfway through the book … went sour on Marxism — Alfred Kazin > 3. a. < find it easier if they … do not have to hear too often too much of the sour truth — Walter Lippmann > < a sour job, like washing up the dishes after a party — George Weller > < that's a sour harbor in a sou'east gale — Mary H. Vorse > b. < a sour disgruntled man of small position — Margaret Mead > < take a sour view of recent contributions of nuclear physics to human progress — J.B.Priestley > c. < made a sour grimace — L.C.Douglas > d. < unions are sour on the new merger, and may … form a new group — Kiplinger Washington Letter > 4. a. b. dialect Britain 5. archaic < sour gusts of wind and rain — Archibald Lovell > 6. a. b. < must hear the sour note and correct it — C.W.Pearce > < his … drives were often wild, his putting sour — Time > Synonyms: < sour wine > < sour bread > acid applies to that which has a biting taste in its natural or normal state < acid fruits > acidulous implies a degree of acidity < mineral waters pleasantly acidulous > while tart indicates a sharp but often an agreeable acidity < cooks prefer tart apples for pies > dry applies to wines that are bland without being sweet. In more figurative senses, sour applies to the peevish or morose; acidulous and tart to asperity, pungency, or sharpness; acid to the biting or caustic < a sour man was Andrew Bogue that day, and sourer was he now. Nor word nor syllable would he utter — William Black > < she's none too well pleased about it. A discarded woman never is; she always turns sour on you — Max Peacock > < the acidulous tongue … had impaired working relationships with his British, Chinese, and American colleagues — John Fischer > < tart temper never mellows with age — Washington Irving > < his wit became acid; his letters are filled with caustic comment to sharpen the temper of those on the fighting line — V.L.Parrington > dry may suggest matter-of-fact impersonal presentation of the humorous, sarcastic, or ironic < into these tiny paragraphs he packed his dry wit and his easy, good-natured satire on the follies of the day — Eleanor M. Sickles > < a story by Maupassant, dry and ironical in its beginning — V.S.Pritchett > II. 1. a. (1) < film yeasts may develop on … pickles, including sours and dills — Crops in Peace & War > (2) b. < take the good with the bad, the sweet with the sour > 2. 3. < whisky sour > < gin sour > III. IV. intransitive verb 1. a. < made a start of yeast in that keg … by letting some dough sour in it — W.F.Harris > < there is no need for carpets to sour from cleaning — Boxoffice > b. 2. a. < a laughing girl, but she soured early and took to other ways — A.E.Coppard > b. < prospective investors soured when they found the company would pocket most of the proceeds > — usually used with on < voters can sour on a man who runs too many times for the same office — J.A.Morris b.1904 > c. < could … feel his grief souring into jealousy and resentment — Elizabeth Enright > < relations with his neighbors suddenly soured over the situation > transitive verb 1. a. < yeast is used to sour the wort for beer > b. < tainted vessels sour what they contain — Philip Francis > c. < some grasses sour land > 2. a. < career was soured by inability to get along with … his colleagues — Lynn Montross > < a taste of Africa during two hunting trips … soured him for city life — Newsweek > b. (1) < everything in the galley had gone adrift and soured the cook — Llewellyn Howland > (2) < refused to intervene … this soured many European idealists — Janet Flanner > — usually used with on < soured me on wealth, made me suspicious of the whole system — W.A.White > c. obsolete < souring his cheeks — Shakespeare > 3. 4. Synonyms: see exacerbate |
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