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.

为《星期日泰晤士报》工作了14年多时间里，他把一份、面向特定阶级大报变成了一份引人、激动人心报纸，还有一份色彩亮丽彩色杂志——这英国还是第一次。

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

令人惊讶是，这次改革试验也发生世界学术界国度之一日本。

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.

公园里面有住人，马奇根加人，有一些老保护人士觉得公园里有马奇根加人是个问题，因为他们那里打猎。

I'm less likely to change my rigidity because they are associated in my mind.

我反而不容易去改变自己，因为我意识里，它们是相互关联。

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

之前我一直一间保守律所工作。

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扫兴鬼。

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.

我们现一切就绪了。然而，他现，是个呆老。我不能让他像我现这样四处走动。我们之前做到了，但条件不同。

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.

甚至有几位老太太都觉得，一个能像他这样细心商讨孩子毛病和问题男人，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.

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

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.

她倒妈妈怀里放声大笑，就连那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保守习惯，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”近收购了那里大部分土地和建筑，并试图修整那些街道。

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，罗宾发现自己身处于反主流文化之中，到处都是毒品和性。

You're such a square, Greg. Why do you think we can't call guys and ask them out?

你是个人，格雷格。为什么你认为我们不能给男方打电话约他们出去？

Another is the risk of a cultural clash between IBM's still relatively strait-laced culture and Red Hat's freewheeling one.

另一个问题是IBM仍然相对文化和红帽子自由文化之间文化冲突风险。

Even Frank Lloyd Wright humoured clients who wanted fuddy-duddy features such as closets.

甚至弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特也会迁就那些想要衣柜等功能客户。

Investors are now betting that these two firms, together with Stripe and Adyen (which is Dutch), form a quartet that can take on America's stodgy financial establishment.

投资者们估计，这两家公司连同Stripe和Adyen（荷兰公司）打算四家联手与美国金融机构展开较量。

But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks.

但马奇叔婆不具备这种才能，她用她清规戒律，她方式，以及冗长乏味唠叨，把艾米折磨得够呛。

Its name was widely understood to contrast it with stodgier operators too willing to say " no" . Investors were entranced.

人们普遍认为，它名字和那些不愿意说“不”运行商形成了鲜明对比。投资者们非常开心。