souring

英 [ˈsaʊərɪŋ]

美 [ˈsaʊərɪŋ]

v.  (使)变坏，恶化; (牛奶等)变味，酸腐
sour的现在分词

COCA.45696

柯林斯词典

• See also:The stewed apple was sour even with honey.sweet and sour
• (牛奶)变质的，馊的
  Sourmilk is milk that has an unpleasant taste because it is no longer fresh.
• ADJ-GRADED (人)乖戾的，尖酸刻薄的，不友好的
  Someone who issouris bad-tempered and unfriendly.
  1. She made a sour face in his direction...
     她冲他阴沉着脸。
  2. Police, weary and increasingly sour in mood, wonder aloud why the situation has been allowed to deteriorate.
     警察们疲惫不堪，心情也越来越糟糕，他们不禁满腹狐疑地问：为什么听凭情况不断地恶化下去？
• ADJ (状况、关系等)变坏，变糟，不再令人满意
  If a situation or relationshipturns sourorgoes sour, it stops being enjoyable or satisfactory.
  1. Everything turned sour for me there...
     在那里，对我来说一切变得很不顺利。
  2. Even the European dream is beginning to turn sour...
     甚至连欧洲之梦都开始破灭了。
  3. Their songs are filled with tales of love gone sour.
     他们的歌里充斥着变了味的爱情故事。
• V-ERG (使)(友谊、局势、态度等)变坏;(使)恶化
  If a friendship, situation, or attitudesoursor if somethingsoursit, it becomes less friendly, enjoyable, or hopeful.
  1. If anything sours the relationship, it is likely to be real differences in their world-views...
     如果有什么东西能够破坏这种关系的话，那可能就是他们世界观方面存在的实质性差异。
  2. Her mood soured a little.
     她的心情有点差。
• PHRASE 酸葡萄(喻指由于得不到而加以贬低的东西)
  If you refer to someone's attitude assour grapes, you mean that they say that something is worthless or undesirable because they want it themselves but cannot have it.
  1. Page's response to the suggestion that this might be sour grapes because his company lost the bid is: 'Life's too short for that.'
     有人认为这是佩奇的酸葡萄心理在作怪，因为他的公司未能中标，佩奇对此的回应是：“人生苦短，谁有闲工夫去耿耿于怀呢？”

英英释义

noun

• the process of becoming sour

双语例句

• From a strategic perspective, there is the danger of Greek politics souring still further and the country becoming a permanent trouble-spot in the eastern Mediterranean, even if it is out of the euro.
  从战略的角度看，希腊政局有持续恶化的危险，此外，即使希腊退出欧元，她也可能沦为东地中海永久的问题区。
• Be able to souring needed machine which is required by the production needs.
  根据生产需要寻找机器设备的供应商。
• Although Spain has announced deep budget cuts and new plans to strengthen its banks, concerns over economic contraction and souring property loans have grown.
  尽管西班牙已宣布大幅削减预算和加强银行的新计划，但人们对经济萎缩和不良房地产贷款的担忧仍在加剧。
• Higher interest rates and a souring housing market are causing consumers to rein in their car purchases.
  利率上升及房地产市场不断走软，限制了消费者的汽车购买。
• Chinese banks have been ramping up lending to developers in recent months, even as falling sales and weaker prices ratchet up the risk of these loans souring.
  近几个月来，中国银行业一直加大对开发商的放贷力度，而房地产销售额下降和价格疲软，增加了这些贷款成为坏账的风险。
• Global investors are souring on the yuan, sending the currency in offshore markets to its weakest level in more than eight months Wednesday, in line with its falling onshore counterpart as China continues its campaign to send it lower.
  全球投资者正在摒弃人民币，周三离岸市场人民币跌至八个多月以来的最低水平，与本地市场走势一致，主要因为中国仍在致力于推低人民币。
• CA set up global sourcing center in Shanghai in 2002 to manage the air conditioning component and finished goods global souring business.
  CA公司是一家美资空调品牌公司，2002年初在上海成立了战略全球化采购中心，建立了空调零部件和家用空调整机OEM在中国的全球化采购业务。
• A species of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that produce gas and acid from sugars and are sometimes involved in the souring of milk.
  一个需氧的革兰氏阴性细菌的种，能从糖中产生气体和酸，有时和牛奶的自然酸败有关。
• Since single souring and multiple sourcing strategies each offer certain advantages in risky environments, a correct evaluation from a risk management perspective is needed.
  单源采购和多源采购各有优劣势，因此从风险管理角度进行正确有效的评估是有必要的。
• The economic mood may be souring fast, but Nicolas Sarkozy still managed to bring some festive cheer to his electorate over the holiday period.
  经济氛围可能很快会变得不如人意，但是尼古拉斯？萨科齐仍然设法在节日期间将一些圣诞欢乐带给他的选民们。