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单词 to go sour
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to go (or turn) sour (on a person)
b. figurative or in figurative context. Esp. in to go (or turn) sour (on a person).
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective] > rendered or made sour
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Prol. O wondirful suetnes, þe whilk waxis noght soure thurgh þe corupciouns of þis warld.
1611 Bible (King James) Hosea iv. 18 Ephraim is ioyned to idoles:..Their drinke is sowre.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 62 The soure levin of humane Traditions mixt in one putrifi'd Masse with the poisonous dregs of hypocrisie in the hearts of Prelates.
1686 W. Harris in tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) Ep. Ded. sig. A5v The sowre Leaven of Intestine Rebellion.
1799 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 8 There is a very sour leaven of malevolence in many English and in many American minds against each other.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. ii. 215 General Dumouriez,..finds all in sour heat of darkness.
1928 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 11/5 Sir Victor Sassoon..advised the House to pass the bill, as there was a danger of the Government, in racing parlance, ‘going sour’.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid ix. 194 Let only my luck stay good And not turn sour on me.
1957 A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia xv. 214 He cannot afford to ease up in one or two bulls, or the whole afternoon may go sour on him.
1964 L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence 50 What is a cynic but a romanticist turned sour?
1971 A. Sampson New Anat. Brit. 278 It is at the meetings with Treasury men that so many political ideals have been defeated, so many bold promises gone sour.
1981 P. Niesewand Word of Gentleman i. 14 Moorhouse and his party had wiped the floor with the opposition... Then suddenly everything went sour.
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