记忆方法
将“demur”与“de”前缀结合，想象有人因为担心或不情愿（“mor”类似于“morbid”，带有不愉快的含义）而拒绝了某个请求，从而形成“demur”表示犹豫或不情愿拒绝的意思。
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词族 · demur
中文词源
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。
英语词源
- demur
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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.
权威例句
- 1. They accepted without demur.
- 他们接受了,没有提出异议.
- 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.
- 4. Without demur, they joined the party in my rooms.
- 他们没有推辞就到我的屋里一起聚餐了.
- 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.