dun

n. 讨债者；催促者

adj. 微暗的；暗褐色的

vt. 催讨

n. (Dun)人名；(英)邓恩

n.

催促者，讨债者，催债；

v.

催讨；

adj.

暗褐色的，微暗的；

英英释义

dun[ dʌn ]

n.

horse of a dull brownish grey color

a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

"she wore dun"

同义词：greyish browngrayish brownfawn

v.

treat cruelly

同义词：tormentragbedevilcrucifyfrustrate

persistently ask for overdue payment

"The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

cure by salting

"dun codfish"

make a dun color

adj.of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

"the dun and dreary prairie"

双语例句

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。

权威例句

dun

dun: English has two words dun. The colour adjective, ‘greyish brown’ [OE], comes ultimately from Indo-European *donnos, *dusnos, which is also the source of English dusk. The now rather dated noun, ‘debtcollector’ [17], is an abbreviation of dunkirk, a 17th-century term for a ‘privateer’, a privately owned vessel officially allowed to attack enemy shipping during wartime.It was originally applied from such privateers that sailed from the port of Dunkirk, on the northern coast of France, to attack British ships, and its connotations of unwarranted piracy soon spread metaphorically to one who was constantly importuning for the repayment of his loan.=> donkey, dusk, obfuscate

dun (v.)

"to insist on payment of debt," 1620s, perhaps related to dunnen "to sound, resound, make a din" (c. 1200, dialectal variant of din), or shortened from dunkirk (c. 1600) "privateer," a private vessel licensed to attack enemy ships during wartime, from Dunkirk, French port from which they sailed. The oldest theory traces it to a Joe Dun, supposedly a London bailiff famous for catching defaulters. Related: Dunned; dunning. As a noun from 1620s.

dun (adj.)

Old English dunn "dingy brown, dark-colored," perhaps from Celtic (compare Old Irish donn "dark;" Gaelic donn "brown, dark;" Welsh dwnn "brownish"), from PIE *donnos, *dusnos "dark."

1. There, head articles in Chinese newspapers by Ding Ling, Mao Dun, and other friends mourned her death.

中国的报纸以显著地位刊登丁玲、茅盾等友人悼念她的文章。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.

他们以为讨债的来了，就从安全的地方朝外窥伺。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

3. For example, a Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S?

例如，一个dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S?

-- 来源 -- science - 汉英

4. To dun for payment of an old debt

催讨旧债

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语

5. while here the mountain-shadows,broad and dun,

而在此，山峰的倒影，阴郁而广阔，

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

6. dun payment

催某人还债

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. Home of Mao Dun

茅盾故居

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

8. she wore a dun raincoat.

她穿着一件暗褐色的雨衣。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

9. the dun and dreary prairie.

灰褐色的、沉闷的牧

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

10. horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail.

略带浅黄的褐色马，鬃毛和尾巴为深色。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考