Our colloquialisms reveal a great deal : once you are old you are " fading fast " , " over the hill " , " out to pasture" , " down the drain" , " finished " , " out of date" an " old crock" , " fogy" , " geeze" , " biddy" .

你一旦老了，便" 很快枯萎" ，" 走下坡路" ，" 靠边站" ，" 徒劳 无功" ，" 完蛋了" ，" 过时了" ，是个" 老废物" ，" 老古板" ，" 怪老头儿" 或" 长舌婆。

Over a 14-year stint at the Sunday Times he had turned a staid, class-bound broad-sheet into a compelling, dramatic newspaper with-a first for Britain-a glossy colour magazine.

在为《星期日泰晤士报》工作了14年多时间里，他把一份古板、面向特定阶级大报变成了一份引注目、激动报纸，还有一份色彩亮丽彩色杂志——这在英国还是第一次。

Surprisingly, this experiment is taking place in Japan—a country with one of the most rigid academic hierarchies in the world.

令惊讶是，这次改革试验也发生在世界学术界最古板国度之一日本。

I have this chalkboard to-do list at home but only because I'm old school.

我家里有这么一块黑板，上面写着待办事清单，但这只是因为我是个老古板。

And they have people living inside of it, the Machiguenga, and some more sort of old-fashioned conservationists feel that the presence of the Machiguenga in the park is a problem because they hunt there.

公园里面有住，马奇根加，有一些老古板保护士觉得公园里有马奇根加是个问题，因为他们在那里打猎。

Well, my last job was at a pretty conservative law firm.

之前我一直在一间古板保所工作。

What's the matter? -He's just back to boring, strait-laced, off the junk.

怎么了？-他又变回那个无趣古板乖宝宝了。

I had to do something to prove we weren't some stuffy killjoys.

我必须想办法证明我们不是古板扫兴鬼。

I don't need one of those houses in town with stuffy neighbors.

我不必搬进城跟古板家为邻。

We have everything in order now. He now, however, is a stiff old thing. I cannot make him move about as I would move now. We achieved this earlier but the conditions were different.

我们现在一切就绪了。然而，他现在，是个呆板老古板。我不能让他像我现在这样四处走动。我们之前做到了，但条件不同。

Were you able to introduce change, so were you able to actually become less rigid, if this was important for you to change, or less gullible, or less grim?

是不是真能改变自己，即是说，如果改变对于你来说真很重要，那你能不能最终变得不那么古板，不那么容易轻信别，不那么冷酷？

Even the strictest old ladies felt that a man who could discuss the ailments and problems of childhood as well as he did could not be altogether bad.

甚至有几位最古板老太太都觉得，一个能像他这样细商讨孩子毛病和问题男，是不可能坏到哪里去。

If the Laurences had been what Jo called 'prim and poky', she would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy and awkward.

如果劳伦斯家真像乔所谓“古板冷漠”话，那么乔就根本不会同他们这样合得来了，因为这类常使她羞怯和局促。

And I'm always on time, you know, and annoying, but she's late and she had a red convertible, I remember, and she'd drive herself to set.

我向来准时，反倒显得有些古板较真，她却总开着红色敞篷跑车自己开车来片场，还老是迟到。

She leaned against her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even the prim visitor could not help joining in.

她倒在妈妈怀里放声大笑，就连那古板女客也忍不住笑起来。

They generally reject both the staid habits of mainstream African papers and the narrow preoccupations of much Western writing about the continent.

他们通常既反感非洲主流报纸古板保习惯，也排斥许多西方媒体对非洲大陆狭隘成见。

The developer JBG Smith had recently acquired much of the land and buildings there and was trying to spruce up the staid streets.

开发商“JBG史密斯”最近收购了那里大部分土地和建筑，并试图修整那些古板街道。

It was the late sixties, and the straight-laced Robin found himself in the middle of a counterculture that revolved around drugs and sex.

当时是60年代末，古板罗宾发现自己身处于反主流文化之中，到处都是毒品和性。

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.

天晓得，也许我思想太古板，但是这年头女家到处乱跑，我可看不惯。

" I'm too Japanese, " says this man. " Well, you're too old-fashioned. Change, " says the group leader.

这位男士说我传统日本性格太根深蒂固了。" 小组长则说：你太古板了一点，改变吧。"