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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'Arâguîb
Abyn
accidental symptom
acoustic perfume
acquirors
allegation of invalidity
assignment statement syntax
automation tool
babysitting circle
bacterium tremo
bagging
banneton
Barra da Estiva
Barrie
be kept in bed
beflutter
bit commitment
cash-balance
cavity dimension
channel stection
common controlling equipment
concreters
condylar mechanism
constant-flux-linkage theorem
cooker solar
cost deviation code
cutout cock
demasculinize
deoxidizing flux
Dhalado
Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service
dihydroriboflavin
diverting
epiphenomenally
epipomponia nawai
equivalent forced outage rate
euplica borealis
five-stage
flag flipflop
floating bank
food festival
gasoline pool
girdle band
governor valve stem connection
hard-top
high air pressure
hyperanteflexion
illuminoneter
jonit
kgbs
LGW
Link shortening
lot-product production
loving and caring
makahiki
mean flight hours between failures
mechanical characteristic
megascopes
non-biased
non-recourse loan
normands
obvene
oenophilic
Omoto-dake
orthogonal polynomial
particular estate
passive hold-down
porture
pseudocolpus
quezales
realgar
red wash
reformatter
relation by marriage
Rhododendron cephalanthum
roadworn
round-robin scheduling
safety reliability
sales research
schistocyte
Scutellaria laeteviolacea
sea snow
secondary information
smart-kid
soft agent
Space Shuttle external tank
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starvation reagent feeding
strongly coupled
structure drilling
subcarrier input
subsonic jet
tarapacaite
thimble tube composite type
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transtegmental
turris nadaensis
unegall
wet atmospheric corrosion
xerophalmus
yellow ligament