humour
英 ['hjuːmə]
美
- n. 幽默（等于humor）；诙谐
- vt. 迁就；使满足
词态变化
复数: humours;第三人称单数: humours;过去式: humoured;过去分词: humoured;现在分词: humouring;
英英释意
- 1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;
- "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
- "he was in a bad humor"
- 2. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- 3. (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state;
- "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
- 4. the liquid parts of the body
- 5. the quality of being funny;
- "I fail to see the humor in it"
- 6. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous;
- "she didn't appreciate my humor"
- "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
英文词源
- humour
- humour: [14] Latin hūmēre meant ‘be moist’ (from it was derived hūmidus, source of English humid [16]). And related to it was the noun hūmor, which signified originally simply ‘liquid’. In due course it came to be applied specifically to any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile) whose combinations according to medieval theories of physiology determined a person’s general health and temperament.
This was the sense in which English acquired the word, via Anglo-Norman humour, and it gradually developed in meaning via ‘mental disposition at a particular time, mood’ and ‘inclination, whim’ to, in the late 17th century, the main modern sense ‘funniness’.
=> humid - humour
- chiefly British English spelling of humor; see -or. Related: Humourous; humourist.
考试真题
- If you liked Wallace and Gromit's previous adventures and you appreciate the British sense of humour, you'll love this film.
2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- It's full of wit and humour.
2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
词组搭配
out of humour
in a bad mood
情绪不好
实用场景例句
- The film is only funny if you appreciate French humour (= things that cause French people to laugh) .
- 只有能理解法国式的幽默才会领略这部电影的趣味。
牛津词典
- to be in the best of humours
- 情绪极好
牛津词典
- The meeting dissolved in ill humour .
- 会议不欢而散。
牛津词典
- to be out of humour (= in a bad mood)
- 心情不好
牛津词典
- She thought it best to humour him rather than get into an argument.
- 她想最好是顺他的意，而不和他争吵。
牛津词典
- She has her very own brand of humour.
- 她的幽默很独特。
牛津词典
- She smiled with a rare flash of humour.
- 她以少有的一丝诙谐微笑了。
牛津词典
- I can't stand people with no sense of humour .
- 我无法忍受毫无幽默感的人。
牛津词典
- They failed to see the humour of the situation.
- 他们没有看出这情景的滑稽之处。
牛津词典
- She ignored his feeble attempt at humour.
- 她没理他想表现却又差劲的幽默。
牛津词典
- a story full of gentle humour
- 充满轻松幽默的故事
牛津词典
- She disliked Dido but was prepared to tolerate her for a weekend in order to humour her husband.
- 她不喜欢迪多，但准备暂时忍受她一个周末，以迁就自己的丈夫。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Hugo bore his illness with great courage and good humour.
- 雨果以巨大的勇气和良好的精神状态面对疾病。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Next day, Louis XIV was in the best of humours...
- 第二天，路易十四心情好得不得了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Christina was still not clear why he had been in such ill humour...
- 克里斯蒂娜仍搞不清楚为什么他情绪这么差。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She felt sorry for the man but couldn't ignore the humour of the situation.
- 她很同情这个男人，但这一情景又让她忍俊不禁。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her humour and determination were a source of inspiration to others.
- 她的幽默言谈和坚定决心对其他人来说是一种鼓舞。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Adolf Hitler flew again to Nuremberg to review his faithful followers.
- 阿道夫·希特勒再次飞临纽伦堡看望他的追随者.
电影对白
- The child laughed his mother into a better humour.
- 孩子笑得使妈妈的心情好起来了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- It took him a while to latch onto their style of humour.
- 他过了一会儿才明白他们的幽默方式.
《简明英汉词典》
- I've never appreciated his crude sense of humour.
- 我从不欣赏他那低级趣味的幽默.
《用法词典》
- He has a sense of humour plus tolerance and patience.
- 他具有幽默感又能宽容和忍耐.
《简明英汉词典》
- His new play is a mixture of saddness and humour.
- 他的新剧本融悲哀和幽默于一体.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- For a successful class humour is indispensable.
- 要在课堂上取得成功,幽默是必不可少的.
《简明英汉词典》
- He couldn't see her salty humour in the situation.
- 在这种情景中他领会不到她那粗俗的幽默话所指的是什么.
《简明英汉词典》