dour
dour 英 [ˈdaʊə(r)] 美 [dʊr, daʊr]
adj. 严厉的；顽强的；阴沉的；不爱讲话的
比较级:dourer 最高级:dourest
- Dour describes something sullen, gloomy, or persistent. You might look dour on your way to picking up your last check from the job you just got fired from, and people should get out of your way.
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- adj. 严厉的；顽强的；阴沉的；不爱讲话的
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1. He noted that activity among clients remains relatively strong and other parts of the survey show expectations for trade volumes holding up despite the dour outlook.
他指出，客户活动依然相对较强劲，该调查的其他部分显示，尽管对前景的看法黯淡，对贸易额的期望依然很高。
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2. Yet for savers without the time or expertise to be stock pickers or for those too risk averse to stick all their eggs in one basket, the investment climate has been dour.
不过,对那些没有时间或缺乏专业知识来选股,或不愿把风险放在一个篮子里的人而言,投资环境持续对其不利.
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3. The dour outlooks come on the same day that the National Association of Realtors said home sales reached a 15-year low in June , dousing hopes that the industry had reached a bottoming point.
同日，严峻的形势还表现为全国房地产经纪人协会说六月份房产销售达到15年来的最低点，使人们认为房地产已经地质谷底的希望破灭。
- dour (adj.) mid-14c., "severe," from Scottish and northern England dialect, probably 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.
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