fuddy-duddy

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈfʌd.iˌdʌd.i]
• 美式音标 [ˈfʌd.iˌdʌd.i]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 守旧的人，老顽固，老古董；自命不凡的人；吹毛求疵的人

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Stephen loves pop culture, and not being seen as a fuddy-duddy.
  史蒂芬喜爱流行文化，也不像是个唠叨的守旧者”。
• And woe betide the CEO who missed the game and looked like an old fuddy-duddy.
  那些悲哀的CEO，没有跟上潮流错过这场游戏的，就像是“老古董”。
• Tony Blair* and Gordon Brown* talked excitedly about “transforming” Whitehall* and its fuddy-duddy ways.
  托尼·布莱尔和戈登·布朗总是激动地向人们谈论正在改变的英国政府和它先前种种的传统老路。

原声例句

• We tend to think of this as an old fuddy-duddy document, it's outdated, has outdated ideas, and I think the challenge of this course is that you read the Bible with fresh eyes so that you can appreciate it for what it was, in many ways what it continues to be: a revolutionary, cultural critique.
  人们总把它看做陈旧古板的文件，很过时，里面的内容也跟不上时代，我认为我们这门课的一个很大挑战就是,大家要用一个全新的认识来读圣经,这样你们才能真正品味到其中的韵味,而且在很多方面，它还是革命性的文化评论。
  耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

权威例句

• Translation: The best performers were the sorts of fuddy-duddy stocks (see table) that most investors assume will be duds and shun.
  FORBES: Money & Investing
• In contrast, Apple's ads have neatly-wrapped cutting attacks on Windows Vista in a humorous schtick that depicts the PC user as a fumbling fuddy-duddy and the Mac user as worldy, wise and hip.
  FORBES: SiliConsumed
• Thinking Kinder was too much of a fuddy-duddy, too wedded to the fading pipeline business and lacking the swashbuckling style needed to run a company so clearly destined to remake the worlds of dealmaking and energy trading, they withheld the top job.
  FORBES: Rich Kinder's Energy Kingdom

词组短语

短语

• old fuddy -duddy 老古板
• be ultraconservative fuddy -duddy 极守旧
• fogey fogy frump fuddy -duddy 守旧者

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a person who has old-fashioned ideas and opinions

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe someone as a fuddy-duddy, you are criticizing or making fun of them because they are old-fashioned in their appearance or attitudes.