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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accretion of discount
annulary
aromatic acid
ascorbyl
Bardet-Biedl syndrome
beancounters
beginblock
Bensylyt
calcium isovalerate
carve-outs
central readjustment
chockas
Clapham Junction
clock system
compile-time message
comprehensive system
conveyer and brush mechanism
current character
datum plane
deceive into
despotical
direct infringement
doggy-style
dontcha
Dragonian
echinocytes
effervescently
eminence
engowschede
epididymiss
falling terminal juncture
Federation of ASEAN Shipper's Councils
fibrocartilago
filoni
findley
four-wheel drive lorry
grinding dust
high resolution colour graph control board
hot-water pump cylinder cover
hyperbooks
imitating exercise
insame
intertone
Irakleio
isomerite
jeopardy clause
Konstantinovka
laurel wreaths
layered target
Leanne
left internal iliac artery
library budget
Little Horse
loss-of-flow accident
Maxwell Fracture Zone
methylenebis(4-phenyl-isocyanate)
Miłosław
mocking
neo-modernist
No answer!
Nobeoka
nuclear cell
numbers station
orffelia annan formosana
overload relief valve
paper yellow
piece concept
pleuroccipital
pollution from land-based source
preelectrolysis
protecting grounding network
ps/2 connector
pyrimidine dinner
racemisations
reparameterizes
rhythm of the rain
right heart failure
Rochefort-en-Terre
salicylic acid isobutyl ester
satellite Litigation
school type code
screw-worm
scutulum
self-cleansing velocity
smallest size to scale
solvent membrane
soy(bean) miso
strangulated hemorrhoid
submerged screw log
symbolic system
tectum of midbrain
tigerstripes
total reflecting prism
toxoidum
triple diffused emitter-follower logic
tsung
umecyanin
volumetric(al) feeder
waiter-service
walking shorts
wither-
Ygdrasil