donnish
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈdɒn.ɪʃ]
- 美式音标 [ˈdɑː.nɪʃ]
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- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.像大学学监一样的；学究式的；装模作样的
英汉例句
- He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks. He writes haiku poems and reads Shakespeare for pleasure.
虽然是一名虔诚的天主教徒，他却有着儒雅的学究气息，平日不但写写俳句而且乐于阅读莎士比亚的书籍。 - She knew he was being playful in his donnish way and she was surprised that he could take the whole affair so lightly .
她知道， 他是以专家学者的派头故意装出幽默的样子； 她感到惊奇的是， 他竟然把这一事态看得如此轻松。
more999.com - Juvenile Antarctic octopuses, speckled brown, mauve and orange, look like exquisitely carved netsuke ornaments, perfectly proportioned and endearing for their donnish domed "heads".
南极小章鱼布满褐色、淡紫色和桔色斑点，看上去好像精雕细刻的饰品坠子，与它们那学究式的半圆形“头”完美相称，惹人喜爱。 - Browne, 53, is a donnish, Cambridge-educated oil engineer who loves the opera, smokes Cuban cigars and collects Mapplethorpe photographs (of flowers, he is quick to point out) and 18th-century English furniture.
FORBES: Going deep - The donnish barb was understandable, but quite wrong.
ECONOMIST: Bernard Williams
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- intelligent, often in a way that is too serious
- of or resembling a university don