adj. (-ier; -iest) 1.(食物)浓厚的,不易消化的,胀肚子的。 2.(书等)内容枯燥的;(文体等)乏味的。 3.〔口语〕矮胖的,身体笨重的。 4.装得满满的。 5.(人)庸俗的,老派的,守旧的。 短语和例子 I want something to read. These volumes are stodgy. 我要一些可读的东西,这些书本本枯燥乏味。 The gateman was a stodgy fellow of 60. 看门人是个六十岁的矮胖子。 adv. -ily
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" 同义词:stuffy,
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" 同义词:fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud,
heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
例句与用法
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The gateman was a stodgy fellow of 60 . 看门人是个六十岁的矮胖子。
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I mean i'm not talking about these stodgy wives, pug . 我的意思不是说那些老古板的女人,帕格。
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I want something to read. these volumes are stodgy . 我要一些可读的东西,这些书本本枯燥乏味。
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She poked fun at alec because he was shy and stodgy . 她开亚历克的玩笑,因为他羞怯,同时还有些沉闷。
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She laughed to herself, then looked sideways at this stodgy nurse . 她顾自大笑起来,然后斜眼看了看这个墨守成规的护士。
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He kisses for the girls, a shoulder clinch for good old dudley howard, a nice bloke, if just about the stodgiest actor . 他吻过姑娘们后又热烈地拥抱亲爱的老达德利霍华德,一个极其平庸的演员和敦厚的家伙。
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After his long travel, the flat-voweled voice of the bookstall clerk offering the latest novel sounded pleasant-pleasant the independent answers of a bearded guard, and the stodgy farewell sayings of a man and wife . 经过了长期旅行以后,书摊上书贩子推荐最新小说的平板的声音听着很悦耳-连一个长着胡髭的路警的不受拘束的答话,以及一对夫妇的平凡的话别,也听着挺舒服。
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Being seen as a big , stodgy bank ? even , you might say , something like a utility ? is a novelty for bofa 被看成是一家庞大的,笨拙的银行你甚至可以把它看成是公共事业对美洲银行来说是一个新奇的事物。
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He kisses for the girls , a shoulder clinch for good old dudley howard , a nice bloke , if just about the stodgiest actor 他吻过姑娘们后又热烈地拥抱亲爱的老达德利?霍华德,一个极其平庸的演员和敦厚的家伙。
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Mothers in tang dynasty is quite different from the former dynasties ' closeness and stodgy and the latter ' s conservation and rigidity 摘要唐代女性的学养不同于前代的封闭与死板,也异于后代的保守与僵化。