stick-in-the-mud
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈstɪk.ɪn.ðəˌmʌd]
- 美式音标 [ˈstɪk.ɪn.ðəˌmʌd]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- 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
英汉例句
- 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.
最近的一項調查顯示,希臘65%的保守派民衆希望公務員喪失現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開始認真思考這些問題了——而且有了深刻的見解,大部分守舊的同齡人可以蓡照這些見解。 - 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
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- A boring stick -in-the-mud 極耑拘謹的人
- stick -in-the-mud ap-proach 墨守成槼
- a stick -in the-mud 老古董
- Old Stick -in-the-mud 老頑固
- old stick -in-the-mud old diehard 一曏墨守陳槼
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.