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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学英语单词
'Zbud
ACTH
actual loss
alcaliotropism
Amaranthus retroflexus L.
aparta
autogonism
automated grouping system
autumnal equinoctial period
Belyuen
blue nails
boundary scan test
boysterous
bulk semiconductor devices and their applications
bullough
Chocaman
Cipatujah
communist international economics
consumer integrated circuit
cultural conservation
cyanophytes
cylinder skew
damage by vibration
daturic acid
dicalcium ferrite
distributed database processing strategy
double ended wrench (double ended spanner)
drakensberg mountains
droneningly
dugald
duty paying value
El Alcázar
electronic industry
emperished
Epicorynoline
epilepto-
erythromatosis
fault clerk's deck
flawing
Ganku
Gauss mean value theorem
granulifusus kiranus
Hamill, Dorothy
hemorrhagic dengue
high energy density beam welding
hoist overspeed protective device
hussar monkeys
hypercoagulative state
ice model basin
inner joint
Kepa
khazins
kirkellas
kokhbas
Kunagurk
lay a finger to one's lips
lifa
loan on favourable terms
made your choice
marie-josee
Megacidin
Mevlevi
miunted ring
multi-locus
multichannel communication program
multifunctionality of software
multivitamins
mute swans
no smoking and fasten seat belt sign
Nsang
oliving machine
osnaparis nucea
Palmer process
Parnassia omeiensis
phagoindex
piling of rockeries
pilot oil
place net
pseudomictic
put up a petition to Heaven
radiosonde receptor
Rason L.
repetition priming test
required subject
senile pruritus
simple binomial sampling plan
simple cyst of kidney
solid-state theory
spot gouging
squashed delta
St. Benedict
standing gear
stiff joints
tanniniferous idioblast
threonine-oxytocin
to the advantage of sb
transposed operator
tristesse
two-rate system
word processing system
workable system
Zenker's crystals