humour: [14] Latin hūmēre meant ‘be moist’ (from it was derived hūmidus, source of English humid [16]). And related to it was the noun hūmor, which signified originally simply ‘liquid’. In due course it came to be applied specifically to any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile) whose combinations according to medieval theories of physiology determined a person’s general health and temperament.
This was the sense in which English acquired the word, via Anglo-Norman humour, and it gradually developed in meaning via ‘mental disposition at a particular time, mood’ and ‘inclination, whim’ to, in the late 17th century, the main modern sense ‘funniness’. => humid
humour
chiefly British English spelling of humor; see -or. Related: Humourous; humourist.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. There is a wry sense of humour in his work.
他的作品帶有一種諷刺意味的幽默。
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2. Sharon tells the story of that night with self-deprecating humour.
沙倫以幽默自嘲的口吻講述那一夜的故事。
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3. Hugo bore his illness with great courage and good humour.
雨果以巨大的勇氣和良好的精神狀態(tài)面對(duì)疾病。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
4. This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour.
這部當(dāng)代風(fēng)尚喜劇雜糅了悲憫的情懷和尖酸的幽默。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
5. This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.