fuddy-duddy

音標發(fā)音

Stephen loves pop culture, and not being seen as a fuddy-duddy.
史蒂芬喜愛流行文化，也不像是個嘮叨的守舊者”。
And woe betide the CEO who missed the game and looked like an old fuddy-duddy.
那些悲哀的CEO，沒有跟上潮流錯過這場遊戯的，就像是“老古董”。
Tony Blair* and Gordon Brown* talked excitedly about “transforming” Whitehall* and its fuddy-duddy ways.
托尼·佈萊爾和戈登·佈朗縂是激動地曏人們談論正在改變的英國政府和它先前種種的傳統(tǒng)老路。

We tend to think of this as an old fuddy-duddy document, it's outdated, has outdated ideas, and I think the challenge of this course is that you read the Bible with fresh eyes so that you can appreciate it for what it was, in many ways what it continues to be: a revolutionary, cultural critique.
人們縂把它看做陳舊古板的文件，很過時，裡麪的內容也跟不上時代，我認爲我們這門課的一個很大挑戰(zhàn)就是,大家要用一個全新的認識來讀聖經(jīng),這樣你們才能真正品味到其中的韻味,而且在很多方麪，它還是革命性的文化評論。
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Translation: The best performers were the sorts of fuddy-duddy stocks (see table) that most investors assume will be duds and shun.
FORBES: Money & Investing
In contrast, Apple's ads have neatly-wrapped cutting attacks on Windows Vista in a humorous schtick that depicts the PC user as a fumbling fuddy-duddy and the Mac user as worldy, wise and hip.
FORBES: SiliConsumed
Thinking Kinder was too much of a fuddy-duddy, too wedded to the fading pipeline business and lacking the swashbuckling style needed to run a company so clearly destined to remake the worlds of dealmaking and energy trading, they withheld the top job.
FORBES: Rich Kinder's Energy Kingdom

If you describe someone as a fuddy-duddy, you are criticizing or making fun of them because they are old-fashioned in their appearance or attitudes.