sour的英文釋義Noun 1. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
2. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
3. the property of being acidic
Verb 1. go sour or spoil;
The milk has souredThe wine workedThe cream has turned--we have to throw it out2. make sour or more sour
Adjective 1. smelling of fermentation or staleness
2. having a sharp biting taste
3. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
4. in an unpalatable state;
sour milk5. inaccurate in pitch;
a false (or sour) noteher singing was off key6. showing a brooding ill humor;
a dark scowlthe proverbially dour New England Puritana glum, hopeless shrughe sat in moody silencea morose and unsociable mannera saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Blivena sour tempera sullen crowd