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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adgenic cyst
anaerobic oxidation
angle stiffener
antoikoi
apricot-pink
asbestos mattress
bacteriotherapeutic
Bajama
be out of berth
Berzniki
best opening face
bretheling
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chasseur sauce
compass card
compassionable
cross-stitch canvas
danson b.
dead or static load
deep rooted plant
diethyl pyrocarbonat
dominant ideology thesis
dropped fuel assembly
DTRS
electric blasting unit
en mass
energy program
Epimedium sutchuenense
equiaxed crystal grain
fauna
firecracka
fuzzy quantity
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golden fern
group form
grout mixer
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immittance chart
in situ composite
international number of light
invisible current transaction
Isobel
je manintiendrai
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kunckle line
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marine traffic observation
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medium-strength alloy
mellow soil
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neoceratoduss
nickel-cadmiums
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triethyl borate
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trx
undrained triaxial test
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volatilization rate
well drainage area
without a stitch
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