| 单词 | dour |
| 释义 | dour 1. < a literary mode that had slowly percolated through the crust of Puritan provincialism and imparted a certain sprightliness to a dour temper — V.L.Parrington > < an imposing composition, somewhat dour and ascetic in character but full of theatrical thunder and loud declamation — Winthrop Sargeant > 2. < an insistent hunger for learning and a dour and often sacrificial determination to achieve it — Walter Moberly > < resisted change with a dour persistence — Russell Kirk > 3. < an independent individual, suspicious of strangers and frequently dour in disposition — Pamela Gulliver & P.H.Gulliver > < in camp … he was silent; gloomy and dour, frequently irritable, unfriendly and hostile to everybody — C.W.M.Hart > 4. chiefly Scotland a. of weather b. of land Synonyms: see sullen |
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