stick-in-the-mud
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?st?k.?n.e??m?d]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?st?k.?n.e??m?d]
- 英式發(fā)音
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基本解釋
- n. 守舊的人,頑固保守者;(非正式)思想遲鈍的人
- adj. 保守的;遲鈍的
英漢例句
- You may say that I am a stick-in-the-mud , but I don't like Canton pop .
你可以說我是一個老古董,但我不喜歡粵語流行曲。 - And a recent poll showed that 65% of people in stick-in-the-mud Greece want civil servants to lose their job security.
最近的一項調(diào)查顯示,希臘65%的保守派民眾希望公務(wù)員喪失現(xiàn)在對他們工作的保障。
ecocn.org - Happily a few companies have started to think seriously about these problems—and generate insights that their more stick-in-the-mud peers can imitate.
幸運的是一些公司已經(jīng)開始認(rèn)真思考這些問題了——而且有了深刻的見解,大部分守舊的同齡人可以參照這些見解。 - He has also said that he must have been sort of a stick-in-the-mud when my mother wanted more excitement in her life.
NEWYORKER: Gravel - But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
ECONOMIST: What to wear for Salzburg
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權(quán)威例句
詞組短語
- A boring stick -in-the-mud 極端拘謹(jǐn)?shù)娜?/li>
- stick -in-the-mud ap-proach 墨守成規(guī)
- a stick -in the-mud 老古董
- Old Stick -in-the-mud 老頑固
- old stick -in-the-mud old diehard 一向墨守陳規(guī)
短語
英英字典
- someone who is old-fashioned and too serious and avoids enjoyable activities
- If you describe someone as a stick-in-the-mud, you disapprove of them because they do not like doing anything that is new or fun.