Dun
[dʌn]
解释:
(noun.) horse of a dull brownish grey color.
(noun.) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; 'she wore dun'.
(verb.) make a dun color.
(verb.) cure by salting; 'dun codfish'.
(verb.) persistently ask for overdue payment; 'The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone'.
(adj.) of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; 'the dun and dreary prairie' .
黛安娜校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A mound or small hill.
(v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
(v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
(n.) One who duns; a dunner.
(n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
(a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
整理:维维安
同义词及近义词:
a. Dull brown.
v. a. Press (for a debt), importune, urge.
n. [1]. Importunate creditor.[2]. Dunning letter.
录入:库尔特
解释:
adj. of a dark colour partly brown and black: dark.—v.t. (U.S.) to cure and brown as cod.—v.i. to become dun-coloured.—ns. Dun′-bird the pochard; Dun′-cow the shagreen ray; Dun′-dīv′er the merganser; Dun′-fish codfish cured by dunning.—adj. Dun′nish somewhat dun.
n. a hill: a fortified mound.
v.t. to demand a debt with din or noise: to urge for payment:—pr.p. dun′ning; pa.p. dunned.—n. one who duns: a demand for payment.
校对:洛丽塔
娱乐性解释:
To dream that you receive a dun, warns you to look after your affairs and correct all tendency towards neglect of business and love.
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例句:
- And she ses to me 'do it' and I dun it and she giv me a sov'ring and hooked it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Dun Cow--to claim the flitch of bacon? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Dun no, Missis, said the image, with a grin that showed all her teeth. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I ha' dun 't not once, not twice—twenty time! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- My dun-coloured dress did well enough under a palet?t on the stage, but would not suit a waltz or a quadrille. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They dunnot say that, dun they? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- I could see no marks to guide me, but the carpet was of a dun colour, which lends itself very well to examination. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Chief among their critics and successors were Duns Scotus (? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Rawdon, with roars of laughter, related a dozen amusing anecdotes of his duns, and Rebecca's adroit treatment of them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- There were no duns in Paris as yet: there were parties every day at Very's or Beauvilliers'; play was plentiful and his luck good. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Wellington had relieved me from many duns, which else had given me vast uneasiness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- There was a great deal of good in Mrs. Micawber's heart, which had not been dunned out of it in all those many years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
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