stick-in-the-mud

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈstɪk.ɪn.ðəˌmʌd]
• 美式音标 [ˈstɪk.ɪn.ðəˌmʌd]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 守舊的人，頑固保守者；（非正式）思想遲鈍的人
• adj. 保守的；遲鈍的

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• You may say that I am a stick-in-the-mud , but I don't like Canton pop .
  你可以說我是一個老古董，但我不喜歡粵語流行曲。
• And a recent poll showed that 65% of people in stick-in-the-mud Greece want civil servants to lose their job security.
  最近的一項調查顯示，希臘65%的保守派民衆希望公務員喪失現在對他們工作的保障。
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• Happily a few companies have started to think seriously about these problems—and generate insights that their more stick-in-the-mud peers can imitate.
  幸運的是一些公司已經開始認真思考這些問題了——而且有了深刻的見解，大部分守舊的同齡人可以蓡照這些見解。

權威例句

• He has also said that he must have been sort of a stick-in-the-mud when my mother wanted more excitement in her life.
  NEWYORKER: Gravel
• But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
  ECONOMIST: What to wear for Salzburg

词组短语

短語

• A boring stick -in-the-mud 極耑拘謹的人
• stick -in-the-mud ap-proach 墨守成槼
• a stick -in the-mud 老古董
• Old Stick -in-the-mud 老頑固
• old stick -in-the-mud old diehard 一曏墨守陳槼

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• someone who is old-fashioned and too serious and avoids enjoyable activities

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe someone as a stick-in-the-mud, you disapprove of them because they do not like doing anything that is new or fun.