sours

英 [ˈsaʊəz]

美 [ˈsaʊərz]

v.  (使)变坏，恶化; (牛奶等)变味，酸腐
sour的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• See also:The stewed apple was sour even with honey.sweet and sour
• (牛奶)变质的，馊的
  Sourmilk is milk that has an unpleasant taste because it is no longer fresh.
• ADJ-GRADED (人)乖戾的，尖酸刻薄的，不友好的
  Someone who issouris bad-tempered and unfriendly.
  1. She made a sour face in his direction...
     她冲他阴沉着脸。
  2. Police, weary and increasingly sour in mood, wonder aloud why the situation has been allowed to deteriorate.
     警察们疲惫不堪，心情也越来越糟糕，他们不禁满腹狐疑地问：为什么听凭情况不断地恶化下去？
• ADJ (状况、关系等)变坏，变糟，不再令人满意
  If a situation or relationshipturns sourorgoes sour, it stops being enjoyable or satisfactory.
  1. Everything turned sour for me there...
     在那里，对我来说一切变得很不顺利。
  2. Even the European dream is beginning to turn sour...
     甚至连欧洲之梦都开始破灭了。
  3. Their songs are filled with tales of love gone sour.
     他们的歌里充斥着变了味的爱情故事。
• V-ERG (使)(友谊、局势、态度等)变坏;(使)恶化
  If a friendship, situation, or attitudesoursor if somethingsoursit, it becomes less friendly, enjoyable, or hopeful.
  1. If anything sours the relationship, it is likely to be real differences in their world-views...
     如果有什么东西能够破坏这种关系的话，那可能就是他们世界观方面存在的实质性差异。
  2. Her mood soured a little.
     她的心情有点差。
• PHRASE 酸葡萄(喻指由于得不到而加以贬低的东西)
  If you refer to someone's attitude assour grapes, you mean that they say that something is worthless or undesirable because they want it themselves but cannot have it.
  1. Page's response to the suggestion that this might be sour grapes because his company lost the bid is: 'Life's too short for that.'
     有人认为这是佩奇的酸葡萄心理在作怪，因为他的公司未能中标，佩奇对此的回应是：“人生苦短，谁有闲工夫去耿耿于怀呢？”

双语例句

• Distribution of the kinetic energy released in Chinese hamster splenetic cells for incident ultrasoft X rays from a poit sours
  点发射超软X射线在中国仓鼠脾细胞中的比释动能分布
• If you keep the worst of it at bay, you may find that your love affair with suicide sours, and your love affair with life becomes more sweet.
  如果你能最大程度的避开它，你就会发现带自杀心酸的爱情事和生活中的爱情事会变得更甜蜜。
• The cream sours in hot weather.
  奶油在热天会变酸。
• When the economy sours, more people end up working part-time.
  经济不景气时，更多的人只能从事兼职工作。
• Even more than spilled oil in Louisiana marshland, it is the anaemic economy that sours the public mood.
  公众情绪低迷，与其说是因为扩散到路易斯安那海岸沼泽的泄漏原油，不如说是因为经济疲弱。
• China sees this as a target of opportunity, both to tweak the US and to subtly suggest to Pakistan that if it really sours of its relationship with the US, it has an alternative.
  “中国将此视为一个机会，既能让美国陷入僵局，又能巧妙的暗示巴基斯坦，就算与美国的关系搞僵了，还有替代选择”。
• A government ratings utility may be tempted to minimise downgrades when the economy sours.
  且在经济衰退时，政府评级的效用也会因倾向于减缓经济下滑而受到影响。
• Have faith in people. cynicism sours the disposition.
  信任别人。愤世嫉俗使你的人格变质。
• In Hungary, banks are already cutting back credit for small businesses and consumer purchases such as cars, fearing that debtors could struggle to repay as the economy sours.
  匈牙利的银行已开始缩减对小企业的贷款和个人购买汽车等大件商品的消费贷款，它们担心，随着经济形势恶化，债务人在还款方面会遇到困难。
• Pisco sours, a kind of tart liquors, were passed out to taste and in thanks.
  为了表达谢意，当地人还奉上了秘鲁出名的皮斯科白兰地酸味酒供我们品尝。