时间:2019-02-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 口语:“真是个老古董!”


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
accelerate stop distance available
ad inf., ad infin.
air-brake
air-entry suction
aircraft wake turbulence avoidance
anemogamy
antimony pentasulfide
Apache plumes
apparent super-luminal motion
ascaris asthma
auxiliary penal measure
bierzanek
Brumpt's white mycetoma
Buynovtsi
calcium metaplunbate
charging gauge
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
Coenobitidae
communicating device
consent order
control animal
departmental cost ledger
desole
dissociation of dislocation
distaining
Double-Bubba ticket, double-Bubba ticket
effective density of state
electronic tachometer
engineering equipment
familical
family of seminorms
Ferripleonaste
finite strain theory of elasticity
foil bag
gas powered boat
give one's mind to something
Gramsci, Antonio
granular fuel
hamstringers
have a preference
Herring body
inaccessible value
invaluably
isolated artificial feeding
jinkers
jumping second whip
kelvin-helmholtz billow (cloud)
Labuk, Sungai
lasing
lateral fasciculus proprius
lawndresse
lesene
lifting surface area
lightning arrester current rating
linearity temperature range
linked system
Liugui Township
Luizi
Manassas Park
metal carbide
minishes
muang laung(long)
narrow frequency band
Newton upon Ouse
non-obligatory act
outshopped
pageable region
plurilateral
preelected
pricklier-liest
pudong new area
Q-A
quelled
quighting
radiation isotope diagnostic/therapeutic apparatus
Red brick
reduced plate height
revolver-launching system
rustic masonry
serial-parallel computer
shining light
short-range intramolecular interaction
skin vegetative reflex
smear ghost
splurk
spring-mounted
streptolysin-O
stuffinesses
T-CEA
tadpole shrimps
tracking antenna system
Triticum spelta
trogoniformess
twist coil chain
ultrasonography(EUS)
unpannelled
valanced
Venae columnae vertebralis
via
visual touch
weak topology
yessirees