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
A.E.F.
aim(-)point,aimpoint
alcidine
ambipolar diffusion
anniv.
antirepressive
arthroncus
awag
axinn
bahrman
barecloth
blown-out
boomerish
bubalo
bullet-lead
burglarous
business affiliation
byte recording mode
cable lug
cable television system
caley peas
cathode follower probe
child of legitimate birth
chingongo (chissengue)
circuit-boards
Cochran's criterion
conjugate harmonic functions
contact reason
craftiness
crease recovery angle
database update
deser storm
diocesans
diploite (anorthite)
dynamic debugging mode
electric-capacity moisture meter
emblement
emitter-coupled transistor circuit
epigastric hernia
Epsicapron
exocrines
EXPLORER-1
extreme trace analysis
gore globe
hepatic sphincter
hetisine
hierarchical image understanding model
hot bending
ingot starting stub
inspection of cargo
ising-star
jofa
keep quiet about
leafhead
leitneria floridanas
low density recording mode
make the world go round
meneely
method of telemetering
mild-natured
multi purpose
multiconductor transmission lines
new-laids
nutrition hygiene
obstrigillate
onmod
Ooamy
Oxazolidin-2-one
paddle mill
paracancerous
passions
peak-reading detector
pill of toad venom
polypharmacology
primary metabolite
register field
regitine methanesulfonate
relusant
rethresher
rheiformess
rolled rib
run the guard
s-wave splitting
Sallyāni
Sandhorst
Saybolt second
screw vault
semi-vitreous ware
senses of direction
sialometaplasia
sphere bundle
staffs'
stake sth out
standard cells
stream bank protection forest
subcarrier pulse
suspended-growth biological process
swimming belt
Trichloran
udotea javensis (mont.)gepp.
varnish system
vasodilating