humour

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n. 幽默, 诙谐, 情绪, 体液 vt. 使满足, 迁就

发音

UK /ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/
US /ˈhjuːmɚ/
US /ˈjuːmɚ/

词形变化

humours 复数 humours humour'd humoured humouring humours 三单 humouring 现在分词 humoured 过去式 humoured 过去分词

别名

humor

教材释义与例句

名词

幽默（等于humor）；诙谐

the ability or tendency to think that things are funny, or funny things you say that show you have this ability

动词

迁就；使满足

to do what someone wants or to pretend to agree with them so that they do not become upset

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

    幽默

    谐谑

    英国 不可数

    She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.

    The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended.

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "I gathered that you might not be altogether sorry to see me. So"—with a reassuring laugh—"here I am." A mild amusement at the possible humours of the situation characterised his manner.

  2. 2.

    A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

    心情

    英国 不可数

    He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.

  3. 3.

    Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

    体液

    英国 古体 历史 不可数

    For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.

  4. 4.

    Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

    英国 不可数 医学
  5. 5.

    Moist vapour, moisture.

    英国 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To pacify by indulging.

    英国 及物

    I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

mood humor temper wit sense of humour bodily fluid body fluid sense of humor witticism wittiness

上位词 8

fun feeling message quality content substance subject matter playfulness

下位词 10

come play fun blood laugh joke milk bite juice sport
动词

同义词 1

humor

上位词 3

indulge pander gratify

相关短语

sense of humour 幽默感 toilet humour 屎尿屁笑话 vitreous humour [电] 玻璃状液 aqueous humour 水状液 gallows humour 面临大难时的幽默 dry humour black humour 黑色指标脉冲；黑幽默 senses of humour crystalline humour ill humour 坏心情；坏脾气 bad humour good humour 愉快的心情；好脾气 glacial humour out of humour 情绪不好 dark humour

词源

From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”). The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".

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