humour

humour
( 美 humor)
noun
[mass noun]
  1. the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech
    （尤指在文学作品和言谈中）幽默，诙谐；滑稽
    his tales are full of humour.
    他的故事充满了幽默。
    ■the ability to perceive or express humour or to appreciate a joke
    幽默感
    their inimitable brand of humour.
    他们独特的幽默感。
    she has a great sense of humour.
    她有很强的幽默感。
  2. a mood or state of mind
    情绪，心情
    her good humour vanished.
    她的好心情消失了。
    the clash hadn't improved his humour.
    这次冲突没有改善他的情绪。
    ■[count noun](archaic)an inclination or whim
    (古)古怪念头；想入非非
  3. (亦作cardinal humour)[count noun](historical)each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present
    (史)体液（血液，黏液，胆汁和忧郁液，以前认为它们在人体的相对比例决定人的身体和心理状况）
verb
  1. [with obj.]comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be
    纵容；迁就，迎合
    she was always humouring him to prevent trouble.
    她总是迁就他以防止麻烦。
    ■(archaic)adapt or accommodate oneself to (something)
    (古)使自己适应（某物）；顺着…的自然情势行事
常用词组
out of humour
  1. in a bad mood
    情绪不好
派生
humourless
adjective
humourlessly
adverb
humourlessness
noun
语源
  1. Middle English: via Old French from Latin humor 'moisture', from humere (see humid). The original sense was 'bodily fluid' (surviving in aqueous humour and vitreous humour, fluids in the eyeball); it was used specifically for any of the cardinal humours (sense 3), whence 'mental disposition' (thought to be caused by the relative proportions of the humours). This led, in the 16th cent., to the senses 'state of mind, mood' (sense 2) and 'whim, fancy', hence to humour someone 'to indulge a person's whim'. Sense 1 dates from the late 16th cent
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