stodgy
英 [ˈstɒdʒi]
美 [ˈstɑːdʒi]
adj. 吃下去感觉撑的; 易饱的; 滞涩的; 古板的; 枯燥无味的
BNC.32974 / COCA.21383
牛津词典
adj.
- 吃下去感觉撑的;易饱的
heavy and making you feel very full - 滞涩的;古板的;枯燥无味的
serious and boring; not exciting
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED (食物)硬实的,难消化的,使人胀饱的
Stodgyfood is very solid and heavy. It makes you feel very full, and is difficult to digest.- He was disgusted with the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
他讨厌吃伦敦卖的难以下咽的比萨饼。
- He was disgusted with the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
- ADJ-GRADED 古板的;令人厌烦的;枯燥乏味的
If you describe someone or something asstodgy, you dislike them or are bored by them because they are very old-fashioned or serious.- They're not cultured or interesting, they are boring stodgy old things.
他们没修养,很乏味,是一群无聊古板的老家伙。
- They're not cultured or interesting, they are boring stodgy old things.
英英释义
adj
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
- a stodgy dinner party
- (used pejoratively) out of fashion
- moss-grown ideas about family life
- heavy and starchy and hard to digest
- stodgy food
- a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
双语例句
- As a teen, Savannah Lengsfelder thought the stodgy old men she saw on C-SPAN had no connection to her life.
作为一名青少年,萨凡纳认为电视上那些索然无味的老人们与她的生活无关。 - Nor am I optimistic that we can sever the links connecting banking as a stodgy utility that provides essential services to the economy to banking as a casino offering opportunities for taking huge bets.
银行是为国民经济提供必要服务的乏味公用事业,也是提供巨额押注机会的赌场。对于认为我们能切断银行两个角色间联系的看法,我并不乐观。 - They clearly did not cherish the idea of working for a stodgy state enterprise, an autocratic government, or what they deemed to be an opportunistic foreign multinational.
很明显,他们对在刻板的国有企业、一个威权政府或他们他们认为带有投机心理的外企里工作并不太感冒。 - Why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?; a stodgy dinner party.
为什么中产阶级这么庸俗、完全没有幽默感呢?;沉闷的宴会。 - I guess they needed it, for history indicated that medieval recipes were heavy and stodgy.
我猜想,当时的人们需要吃姜来帮助消化。因为史料记载,中世纪人们的食谱口味重、油腻。 - He was disgusted with the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
他讨厌吃伦敦卖的难以下咽的比萨饼。 - In return, they spend a lot of time teasing me about my big ears or stodgy suits& and Michelle is always happy to join them.
而萨沙和玛利亚大部分时间都在调侃我的大耳朵或者古板的西装&米歇尔也经常会加入,她们其乐融融。 - The food was good, although a little stodgy.
这食物虽然不太好消化,但是好吃。 - The fellow was stodgy and solemn.
那家伙古板乏味,一本正经。 - In the 1980s, investment banks, encouraged by regulators, began a transformation from stodgy, tradition-bound institutions to restless, relentless seekers of profit.
上世纪80年代,在监管机构的鼓励下,投资银行开始从受传统束缚的平庸机构,向着不安分的逐利机构转变。