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

TOEFLGRE

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.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
  1. why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
  2. a stodgy dinner party
  Synonym:stuffy
• (used pejoratively) out of fashion
  1. moss-grown ideas about family life
  Synonym:fogyishmoss-grownmossystick-in-the-mud(p)
• heavy and starchy and hard to digest
  1. stodgy food
  2. a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full

双语例句

• 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。
• New owner ship can often bring a fresh outlook to stodgy companies.
  新的物主常能给死气沉沉的公司带来新气象。
• 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。
• For the Harvard or Yale model seemed to offer an exciting vision for any long-term investment group that wanted to do more than act like a stodgy, old-fashioned pension fund.
  原因是，对于任何希望摆脱呆滞守旧养老基金状态的长期投资集团，哈佛或耶鲁模式似乎提供了一幅令人兴奋的远景。
• The nimble Obama startup is about to be absorbed into a stodgy, technologically backward behemoth: the federal government.
  机敏的奥巴马以一个令人专注的关于一个技术落后庞然大物的故事开始：那就是联邦政府。
• The fellow was stodgy and solemn.
  那家伙古板乏味，一本正经。
• If you cannot resist a stodgy cake or chips, it may not be simply down to lack of willpower.
  如果你无法抵制油腻的蛋糕或是薯条的诱惑，那可不仅仅是因为缺乏意志力。
• His doctor told him to avoid stodgy food like bread and potatoes.
  他的医生让他避免吃像面包和土豆之类的高淀粉的食物。
• 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。
• 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。