dun
美[dʌn] 英[dʌn]
vt. 讨债
adj. 暗褐色的
n. 暗褐色;讨债者;暗褐色的马
英英释义
Noun- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
"she wore dun"
Adjective- of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color;
"the dun and dreary prairie"
Verb- treat cruelly;
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
- persistently ask for overdue payment;
"The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
- cure by salting;
"dun codfish"
- make a dun color
例句
用作及物动词(vt.)- If you keep on dunning, I'll never pay.如果你继续和我纠缠,我决不付钱。
- The debt-collector kept dunning me for the rent.收帐人一直在催逼我缴租费。
用作形容词(adj.)- While here the mountain shadows, broad and dun.而在此,山峰的倒影,阴郁而广阔。
用作名词(n.)- They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.他们以为我是讨债的,就从安全的地方朝外窥伺。