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sour

/ˈsaʊ.ɚ/ 形容词 B1

中文: 馊、酸

  1. Tasting of acidity. · Lemons have a sour taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc. · Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid. · His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
  4. Hostile or unfriendly. · He gave me a sour look.
  5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil) · sour land· a sour marsh
  6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum) · sour gas smells like rotten eggs
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  8. Off-pitch, out of tune.

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Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
《Alice's Adventures in Wonderland》,第67页 · B2
Would you want to be that white-lace girl and wear a sour look all your life, as if you’d been born turning up your nose at the world?
《Anne of Green Gables》,第287页 · C1
Bennet’s sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第149页 · B2
At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: “The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.”
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第67页 · B2

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