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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0412
a cup of tea
acceptable system
Alim I.
anisatum
Antonio Varas, Pen.
architectures for distributed systems
asset-liability view
average coordinate system
azorubin test
backscatters
Ban Sa Prathip
blancharalite (brochantite)
blocked exchange
bromochoroprene
by the hands of
car toppable
chi
chlorprenaline
circularly polarized antenna
collodion dry plate
crown control
curcuma (test) paper
curvature measurement
Dagupan
demonetized
depth signal pole
diplanetism
divertising
double ghost
dphil
drying and cooling
electrocardiogram telephone
evaluated maintenance programming
Evidential Effects of Bill of Lading
excluded volume
familial dysautonomia
Ferropyroaurite
fire bending machine
freshener
Ganglia thoracica
GASTEROPELECIDAE
go sour
Govezhda
Graves' scapula
Gravocaine
gridwork girder
groundwood paper
gunned down
heat-clearing prescription
intermittent duct (pulse jet)
intrapsychic
IPALT
juventate
Kamskatchan
L-10-W
lacto-vegetarians
liquid nitrogen plant
lubrication opening
macrodissection
metarepresented
model worker
Männlifluh
Ndareda
nonpunishable
NYCTA
octahedral plane
one-year-old
palenque
passive migration
pressure-distribution calculation
prosthetic device
pterostyliss
pyritohedral
quantity per assembly
Red hat Package Manager
removedness
retrieval of technological information
retrocedent gout
roring
safety head lamp
sample chamber
Sandvika
section eight, Section Eight
self-cleaning rotating screen filter
Sergeyevka
short-bowel syndrome
Sidenreng, Danau
starting element
stiacciato
TATPM
the contrary is the case
thrust down
to dredge
tube micrometer
twin brother
Unguiculare
unstable period
upward gradient
vertical pressure leaf filter
waterfall line
with a friendly eye