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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absorptive optical switches
adoff
adoxa moschatellina l.
adriaans
aspiration-arthrography
automatic hardness tester
betulaefolia
Bichevaya
boggling
bridgits
central theme
chronologies
cloracetadol
coast shower
compact code
containment building
convalescent stage
criminal suspects
deep cleaning
dolicholepis
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draper type pickup
dry photography
facebar
fighting materialism
fireman special protection equipment
fungi (fungus)
goldblatt model
grease table
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hasarius adansoni
hawksbill turtles
herculeans
homogeneous sill
Hunter-Schreger band
hydraulic flour mill
Indian mustard seed oil
integrated circuit test
jab artist
licitate
lock out facility
loyds
malta fevers
mayduke
Messi, Lionel
meteorotropism
mica window
multilinearly
ore flotation promoter
outbound dock
overlap signalling
Pandy's reaction
paracolpium
PFCI
phenacodontid
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
potentised
procedure for review of death sentence
program retry
pulse-jet propeller
rate of return function
Recombinate
redistillate
repugns
request for hearing
reserve a berth
rioter
rotary sleeve valve
scribbleth
sheet anchors
Silius Italicus
smidgeons
soil tensile strength
somniferously
spaek
sparsifying
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stirred yourself
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subba
sulfuric horizon
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supplementary capital
synclinal hydrocarbon reservoir
tallow tree
teleconferences
three-stage coutercurrent reactor
time of utilization of installed capacity
tolls
transit routing
transmitting core
Trichostomata
trouble-shootings
twoes-by-four
unselected needle
Valeriana barbulata
vernal points
water gillyflowers
water opening
white sponge nevus
wully
wurthe