donnish
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈdɒn.ɪʃ]
- 美式音标 [ˈdɑː.nɪʃ]
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基本解释
- adj.像大學學監一樣的;學究式的;裝模作樣的
英汉例句
- He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks. He writes haiku poems and reads Shakespeare for pleasure.
雖然是一名虔誠的天主教徒,他卻有著儒雅的學究氣息,平日不但寫寫俳句而且樂於閲讀莎士比亞的書籍。 - 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, 他是以專家學者的派頭故意裝出幽默的樣子; 她感到驚奇的是, 他竟然把這一事態看得如此輕松。
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".
南極小章魚佈滿褐色、淡紫色和桔色斑點,看上去好像精雕細刻的飾品墜子,與它們那學究式的半圓形“頭”完美相稱,惹人喜愛。 - 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
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- intelligent, often in a way that is too serious
- of or resembling a university don