dun

英 [dʌn] 美 [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:

1. horse of a dull brownish grey color

2. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;

   "she wore dun"
   

Adjective:

1. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color;

   "the dun and dreary prairie"
   

Verb:

1. treat cruelly;

   "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
   

2. persistently ask for overdue payment;

   "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
   

3. cure by salting;

   "dun codfish"
   

4. make a dun color

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. If you keep on dunning, I'll never pay.
   如果你继续和我纠缠，我决不付钱。
2. 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.)

1. 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.)

1. 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。

经典引文

• When beeches drip in browns and duns.

  出自： T. Hardy

• Creditors dog my steps, duns rap perpetually at my door.

  出自： R. Graves

• If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.

  出自：Sonnets , Shakespeare

• The bank was dunning them to repay a small loan.

  出自： J. A. Michener

词汇搭配

• isabella dun (马毛色) 亮白兔褐...
• Dun and Bradstreet 邓恩-布雷斯特里特公...
• dun for debts 讨债,索债

近反义词

【近义词】

• brown 棕色的
• creditor 债权人
• bedevil 使痛苦
• greyish brown 灰褐色
• grayish brown 浅灰棕色
• rag 破布
• torment 苦痛
• fawn 未满周岁的小鹿...
• frustrate 挫败
• crucify 钉在十字架上处死...