demur: [13] Like its French cousin demeurer, demur originally meant ‘stay, linger’. It was not until the 17th century that the current sense, ‘raise objections’, developed, via earlier ‘delay’ and ‘hesitate in uncertainty’. The word comes via Old French demorer and Vulgar Latin *dēmorāre from Latin dēmorārī, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and morārī ‘delay’ (source also of English moratorium [19]). => demure, moratorium
demur (v.)
c. 1200, "to linger, tarry, delay," from Old French demorer "delay, retard," from Latin demorari "to linger, loiter, tarry," from de- (see de-) + morari "to delay," from mora "a pause, delay" (see moratorium). Main modern sense of "raise objections" is first attested 1630s. Related: Demurred; demurring.
雙語例句
1. They accepted without demur.
他們接受了,沒有提出異議.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. When Scobie opened the door and stood aside for her to enter, she did so without demur.
當斯科比打開門並站到一邊讓她進去時，她毫不猶豫地這樣做了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. O'Brien's servant, however, had admitted the two of them without demur.
但是, 奧勃良 的仆人二話不說, 讓他們兩人進來.
來自英漢文學
4. Without demur, they joined the party in my rooms.
他們沒有推辭就到我的屋裏一起聚餐了.
來自辭典例句
5. In the end Nixon accepted our unanimous advice without demur.