2SERIOUS PERSONserious, and thinking or making you think carefully about things 认真的,严肃的
a sober hard-working young man
一个态度认真、工作努力的青年
a sober reminder of the difficulties we face
对我们所面临的困难的严正提醒
3SIMPLE/PLAINplain and not at all brightly coloured 素淡的,朴素的
a sober grey suit
朴素的灰色套装
—soberlyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
sober• This fact is the basis for the one-drink-an-hour rule of thumb for remainingsober.• I'll drive you home - I think I'm the only one here that's sober.• I don't think I've ever seen Billsober.• I hadn't been sober and I'd quite fancied my chances with one of the birds.• Recently his tone has become more sober and philosophical.• I went to see Professor Dandavate, a sober and respectedacademic.• Now, seeing the soberbluegleam from the Police Station she went in.• He had not retired to bed sober, but then he rarely, if ever, did.• a sobergraysuit• They'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat.• a sober-looking man in a grey suit• He's a sober, thoughtful, intelligentguy.• Hallucinations and dreams are to be discriminated from soberwaking experience.• Was Garcia sober when he drove off?