时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   朋友抱怨,他老公是出了名的“老古董”,网络笑话半个看不懂,公共场合巨怕卿卿我我,说话做事执着于自认的恒理,任何和新鲜有关的事物从不尝试。总之,一句话,“What a stick-in-the-mud!”(保守,守旧,老古板,老古董,认死理儿。)


  就字面意而言,“stick-in-the-mud”指“陷入泥潭(拔不出)”。它最早出现于18世纪,当时用来形容“四轮马车陷到淤泥里”。如果您曾有过这样的经历——车子深陷泥淖,想必也就猜得出那是一种怎样的局面——推也推不出,拉又拉不动,向上拔?更是比登天还难。随着时间的推移,“stick-in-the-mud”现在常用来形容思想保守、墨守陈规、不愿尝试新事物的人。
  看下面的例句:Maybe you want to try out the big new slide at the water park but your friend isn't sure. You might say: "Come on! Don't be an old stick in the mud!" (你可能想要在水上乐园尝试新的大型滑水道,你朋友却举棋不定,你就可以说:“来嘛,别当老古板了。”)

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absorption by impurities
angular correction
antipodean
applicatively
bath mi(t)zvah
big-house
biographic
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brigandisms
calotypist
canadite pegmatite
castello di annone
chenal
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claim representative
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culvertship
dentaria bulbiferas
deprepositional
desquamative exfoliative erythema
diffuse vesicular emphysema
Ding an sich
disciplinary penalty
disk conveyer
dtf (define the file) macro instruction
dual modulation
element step
field-scale
flange focal distance
flitters
flow brazing
Fluroplast-4
gang capacitor
genus Cnemidophorus
greenfinger
herba swertiae dilutae
high-level cyclone
homographs
horizon scanner
horizontal centering alignment
interstitial irradiation therapy
khiton
knew nothing about
ladany
latex cells
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natural order
nature of friction
Nervus tibialis
night-sky camera
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osay
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perfluorooctanesulphonyl
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program channel
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