0 (usually of a person's appearance or manner) unfriendly, unhappy, and very serious -- （通常指人的外表或行爲）冷峻的，陰沈的，不苟言笑的
The normally dour Mr James was photographed smiling and joking with friends. 平時不苟言笑的詹姆斯先生照片上卻與朋友們談笑風生。
Most will conjure up images of a dour collection of mostly older folk, sitting quietly in a plain room.
What is meant here can perhaps be approached by considering the case of an isolated community of dour individualists who-for purely prudential reasons-maintain a volunteer fire department.
We should not pretend that they need our help because they are dour, miserable and always whingeing—that is the last thing they are.
There is a tremen- dour need for pioneer experiment.
In the end, one research worker, a rather dour north countryman, decided to take the local bus.
He is a well-preserved man of 60, with high forehead of intellectual shape and a dour, uncompromising expression.
In conclusion, those interested in penal reform have attempted to keep the dour taint of prison from as many people as possible.
I have heard them again to-day with the same dour insistence, and when the bon.
