humour

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈhjuːmɚ/|/ˈjuːmɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. UK,uncountable,usually
    — She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
  2. A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. UK,uncountable,usually
    — He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
  3. Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. UK,archaic,historical,uncountable,usually
    — A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
  4. Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour. UK,uncountable,usually
  5. Moist vapour, moisture. UK,obsolete,uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To pacify by indulging. UK,transitive
    — I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

词形变化

humours plural humor alternative,US humours present,singular,third-person humouring participle,present humoured participle,past humoured past humor alternative,US

词汇关系

衍生词
dishumour humoral humorism humorist humorous humourful humourise humourist humourless humourous humoursome outhumour anti-humour aqueous humour bad humour black humour crystalline humour dark humour dry humour gallows humour glacial humour good humour ill humour millennial humor out of humour sense of humour toilet humour vitreous humour
相关词
humid humidity

词源

词源 1
From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”).
The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".
词源 2
From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”).
The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".
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