英语释义

• 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"

• (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;

  "moss-grown ideas about family life"

片语

a stodgy dinner party枯燥无味的宴会

stodgy y乏味的

stodgy bread[食品]

stodgy food易使人饱的食物

Make Stodgy使得不易消化

ordinary普通；平常的人（或事）

stodgy loaf紧实的面包

stodgy clothes衣服挺好看

a stodgy bag鼓绷绷的袋子

crowded拥挤（crowd的过去分词）

stodgy exciting平庸的

stock存货的，常备的；平凡的

英汉例句

• the tie-up is one of many between food manufacturers, who are struggling with soaring raw-material prices and a stodgy economy.

  现在许多食品制造商都会努力用提高原材料价格来寻求自保，在这些食品制造商与经济停滞之中，公司合并已经成为了一种对策。

• remember when manufacturing was old, stodgy and unexciting?

  记得当时的制造业是多么古老、沉闷、无法令人兴奋？

• for fans accustomed to the stodgy — albeit free — coverage offered by terrestrial channels, sky「s whizzy stats and graphics brought football up to date, and made it much more entertaining.

  球迷对地面频道那些平淡乏味的——同时也是免费的——足球节目已经司空见惯，对他们来说，天空电视台的专业数据和图表让足球跟上了新潮流，还包含了更多娱乐元素。

• 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。

• they clearly did not cherish the idea of working for a stodgy state enterprise, an autocratic government, or what they deemed to be an opportunistic foreign multinational.

  很明显，他们对在古板的国有企业、等级森严政府部门或他们他们认为带有投机心理的外企里工作并不太感冒。

• the trick to completing your ajax overhaul is using this plug-in to transform stodgy forms into nifty ajax widgets.

  完成ajax改造的技巧就是用此插件来将繁琐的表单转化为漂亮的ajax小部件。

• its banks were stodgy in their lending. the property market stayed unbubbly in most of the country.

  银行任然惜贷，众多国家房产市场依然冷清。

• great body too, she observed, in a dark suit. beneath it he wore a black t-shirt, not a white polyester shirt and stodgy tie you saw so often in this area.

  他来了，英俊、秃顶的男子，她注意到，他身材也很好，穿一件深色西装，里面穿了件黑色t恤，而不是在本地经常看见涤纶衬衫和古板的领带。

• the tokyo headquarters of japan’s ministry of economy, trade and industry (meti) was the cockpit for the country’s post-war economic miracle. but these days it is a stodgy place.

  坐落于东京本部的日本经济产业省（meti）在战后的经济奇迹中扮演了急先锋的角色，如今却墨守成规，不复当年勇。

• it’s an unusualmove — a rookie senator releasing his own version of the federal budget — butit says a lot about how paul is trying to carve an unconventional identity inthe stodgy senate.

  菜鸟参议员公布自己的联邦财政预算版本是一个反常规的举动，却也象征了小保罗正试图在笨拙的参议院里树立自己独树一帜的风格。

• in other words, investors get paid more to hold equities (with all their growth prospects) than stodgy government bonds.

  换句话说，投资者拿着股票（拥有他们的所有的增长前景）比拿着无聊的国债得到的钱要多。

• not content simply to jettison its stodgy image on the racks, burberry has also been digitally savvy.

  不满足于仅仅抛弃其顽固的形象于货架上，burberry还在数码科技上变得更加精明。

• last time around campaigns introduced stodgy blogs, written by lowly campaign workers, touting their man’s latest speech here or there.

  上次，竞选工作人员关于竞选撰写了许多缜密的博客，宣传他们的参选者在各地最新的演说。

• in the last decade of mr mubarak」s 30-year rule, egypt's privately owned press began to overtake the stodgy state-owned media.

  在穆巴拉克30年统治的最后十年里，埃及私人媒体开始逐渐超越死板的官方媒体。

• the older half of the tate duo (the modern bits moved downriver in 2000) is no stodgy sister.

  泰特艺术馆分为两个馆（本馆和现代艺术馆，译者注），本馆稍旧但艺术品差可一点都不差，现代艺术馆于2000年搬往下游。

• john varley, the departing chief executive of barclays, says his priority when he took over in 2004 was to end the british bank’s dependence on its stodgy home market.

  即将离职的巴克莱银行首席执行官约翰?瓦利称，2004年他接管时首要任务便是结束这家伦敦银行对平庸国内市场的依赖。

• but the stodgy ldp old guard, which had presided over two decades of economic stagnation, bore as much of the blame as the reformist mr koizumi.

  但是迂腐的自民党守旧派，也主持了超过20年的经济下滑，对其的指责不亚于改革派的小泉。

• dell is bound and determined to show that it can be a bigger player in the consumer market.the company also is trying to shake its reputation for stodgy design.

  戴尔正发奋图强，誓在消费者市场上有一番更大的作为，并努力改变在公众心目中戴尔电脑设计古板的印象。

• when stodgy european firms decide they, too, can become agile, they sometimes come to grief.

  当步履沉重的欧洲公司决定，它们也可以变得灵活时，结果有时是令人悲哀的。

• yet if their economies keep roaring ahead, the stodgy business of lending to companies will suffer as alternative means of finance for businesses open up.

  但是如果他们的经济保持快速增长，沉闷的借钱给公司的业务将会在金融上被分离开由于商业的开放。

• poland’s stodgy banks came late to the wild foreign-currency lending that proved so disastrous in such countries as latvia and hungary.

  波兰的效率低下的银行在民间外币借贷方面起步较晚，这在拉脱维亚和匈牙利被证明是灾难性的。

• short-sighted cost-cutting and the imposition of stodgy gm engineering resulted in saabs that were no longer special.

  目光短浅的削减投资，强加以古板的通用工程师，都导致了如今毫无特色的萨博。

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colorless无色的；苍白的；无趣味的