音标:[dʌn] ;
n. 催促者, 讨债者, 催债
v. 催讨
a. 暗褐色的, 微暗的
n. horse of a dull brownish grey color
n. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
v. persistently ask for overdue payment
词型变化:名词复数形式 : duns ; 过去分词 : dunned ; 现在分词 : dunning ; 过去式 : dunned ; 第三人称单数 : duns
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dun的用法和样例:

例句

用作及物动词(vt.)
  1. If you keep on dunning, I'll never pay.如果你继续和我纠缠,我决不付钱。
  2. The debt-collector kept dunning me for the rent.收帐人一直在催逼我缴租费。
用作形容词(adj.)
  1. While here the mountain shadows, broad and dun.而在此,山峰的倒影,阴郁而广阔。
用作名词(n.)
  1. They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.他们以为我是讨债的,就从安全的地方朝外窥伺。

词汇搭配

  • isabella dun(马毛色) 亮白兔褐...
  • Dun and Bradstreet邓恩-布雷斯特里特公...
  • dun for debts讨债,索债

经典引文

  • When beeches drip in browns and duns.

    出自:T. Hardy
  • Creditors dog my steps, duns rap perpetually at my door.

    出自:R. Graves
  • If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.

    出自:Sonnets,Shakespeare
  • The bank was dunning them to repay a small loan.

    出自:J. A. Michener
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