demur

英 [d?'m??] 美[d?'m?]

GRE擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?demurs;過(guò)去式:?demurred;過(guò)去分詞:?demurred;現(xiàn)在分詞:?demurring;

demur 表示反對(duì)

de-, 向下，強(qiáng)調(diào)。-mor, 延遲，詞源同moratorium.原義為延遲，引申詞義反對(duì)，拒絕。

demur: demur: [13] Like its French cousin demeurer, demur originally meant ‘stay, linger’. It was not until the 17th century that the current sense, ‘raise objections’, developed, via earlier ‘delay’ and ‘hesitate in uncertainty’. The word comes via Old French demorer and Vulgar Latin *dēmorāre from Latin dēmorārī, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and morārī ‘delay’ (source also of English moratorium [19]).
=> demure, moratorium
demur (v.): c. 1200, "to linger, tarry, delay," from Old French demorer "delay, retard," from Latin demorari "to linger, loiter, tarry," from de- (see de-) + morari "to delay," from mora "a pause, delay" (see moratorium). Main modern sense of "raise objections" is first attested 1630s. Related: Demurred; demurring.

2. When Scobie opened the door and stood aside for her to enter, she did so without demur.: 當(dāng)斯科比打開(kāi)門(mén)并站到一邊讓她進(jìn)去時(shí)，她毫不猶豫地這樣做了。

3. O'Brien's servant, however, had admitted the two of them without demur.: 但是, 奧勃良的仆人二話(huà)不說(shuō), 讓他們兩人進(jìn)來(lái).

4. Without demur, they joined the party in my rooms.: 他們沒(méi)有推辭就到我的屋里一起聚餐了.

5. In the end Nixon accepted our unanimous advice without demur.: 最后尼克松接受了我們一致的忠告,沒(méi)有表示任何異議.