demur

英 [dɪ'mɜː] 美 [dɪ'mɝ]

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※ 提供单词"demur"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

demur 表示反对

de-, 向下，强调。-mor, 延迟，词源同moratorium.原义为延迟，引申词义反对，拒绝。

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.

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2. When Scobie opened the door and stood aside for her to enter, she did so without demur.: 当斯科比打开门并站到一边让她进去时，她毫不犹豫地这样做了。

3. O'Brien's servant, however, had admitted the two of them without demur.: 但是, 奥勃良的仆人二话不说, 让他们两人进来.

5. In the end Nixon accepted our unanimous advice without demur.: 最后尼克松接受了我们一致的忠告,没有表示任何异议.