dour 的定义
- sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- severe; stern: His dour criticism made us regret having undertaken the job.
- Scot. barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate.
dour 近义词
gloomy, grim
更多dour例句
- The tasting became known as the Judgment of Paris and was portrayed in the 2008 movie “Bottle Shock,” in which the jovial Spurrier was played by a dour Alan Rickman.
- Snyder grabbed the football where Nolan left it and sprinted ahead with an even more dour fictional world in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman.
- Occasionally dour analyst Stacy Rasgon at Bernstein Research tried to temper the joy somewhat.
- Gin and short dresses defeated dour concern with the world’s problems.
- The dour among us might point out that such parallels can only go so far.
- This decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry.
- And so the Libyan revolution was intoxicating, which is why the world watched it much more closely than the dour Syrian struggle.
- Queen Victoria had the reputation of being a humorless, dour battleaxe, a Terminator in bombazine.
- His substitutions had no impact, his halftime team talks were ineffective, and his on-field strategy remained dour.
- While it was a lifetime achievement for Goebel, it was another dour disappointment for Kwan: another Olympics and no gold medal.
- He reached the town in a dour mood of unrest, spite of the promise of wealth he carried in his pocket.
- After daring and trying and tiring, these dour men eventually turned adre, which is Cornish for homeward.
- Thornton's as dour as a door-nail; an obstinate chap, every inch on him,—th' oud bulldog!'
- Through the garden with lowered eyes, past a dour-looking priest with a small paunch.
- Possibly these melancholy matters heightened the dour mood of my new friend, who stayed silent.