Oh, stop acting like I'm some stodgy old coot. I've grown.

别总觉得我是个老顽固 我已经进步了。

It looks old, stodgy even, but it has quite a backstory.

这本书年代已久，甚至算得上枯燥晦涩。但它背后的故事却相当精彩。

So obviously the violin is not just this stodgy old thing from the Renaissance.

很明显 小提琴不光是文艺复兴时的老古董。

They provide a welcome diversion from the stodgy content that marks out most MBA courses.

它们提供了一种受人欢迎的方式，让人们从大多数MBA课程的乏味内容中解脱出来。

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古板的金融机构展开较量。

But Scipio was not one to listen to stodgy old men or superstitious priests. Scipio invaded Africa and, as predicted, Hannibal abandoned Italy to defend the Carthaginian homeland.

西庇阿却不愿听老家伙的建议也不愿听从那些迷信的牧师，西庇阿侵略非洲，正如预，汉弃意大利保卫迦太基故土。

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，它的名字和那些不愿意说“不”的古板运行商形成了鲜明对比。投资者们非常开心。

Cause it's quite stodgy with the soup and the boiled bread noodle. - That's why they're on the side.

因为加了汤和煮过的面食，味道太腻了。- 所以才把它们才在一边啊。

And that other great alternative is not part of a big stodgy bureaucratic mess.

而那另一个绝佳选择并不隶属于庞大而僵化的官僚体系。

Such a pity, 'cause the flavor's stodgy.

真可惜，因为味道很厚重。

It's not the stodgy, clinical, sterile, defensive posture with international leaders.

特朗普总统与国际领导人打交道时，不是那种老套、拘谨、冷漠、防御性的姿态。

And his reasons, he makes a compelling argument because what he basically says is that because law is this traditional stodgy profession, that it's ripe for disruption, that it's just missed a bunch of technological advancements.

而他的理由是， 他提出了一个有说服力的论点， 即法律作为一个传统保守的职业，正适合被颠覆， 因为它错过了许多技术进步。

So if you don't get enough air in there, they don't get fluffy enough then the cake is going to be short, and dense and still delicious but you know a little stodgy.

所以如果你没打进足够的空气，它们就不会蓬松， 那么蛋糕就会变得紧实、密实，虽然还是很好吃， 但你会觉得有点沉闷。

Such a party saw no inspiration in Baireuth, where landscape, history, and audience were — relatively — stodgy, and where the only emotion was a musical dilettantism that the master had abhorred.

这样的派对在拜勒伊特没有灵感，那里的风景、历史和观众——相对来说——乏味，唯一的情感是大师所厌恶的音乐浅薄。

Then let's go four and a half thousand kilometres north, where we find a windswept Jonathan Wilson live from Bordeaux, watching a stodgy Spurs somehow get away with a point.

然后让我们向北行进四千五百公里，来到波尔多， 那里狂风中的乔纳森·威尔逊正在现场，目睹了沉闷的托特纳姆热刺队不知怎地还是带走了一分。

And there is another little line in their statement, very stodgy institutional investor statement, that kind of gets at the much bigger thing at play in this Tesla-Musk saga.

而在他们的声明中， 还有一条很小的内容，这份非常保守的机构投资者声明中提到的内容，实际上揭示了特斯拉和埃隆·马斯克故事背后更大的问题。

Despite a recent slump in venture capital investment, India has a vibrant tech scene full of entrepreneurs eager to disrupt stodgy incumbents.

尽管近期风险投资有所下滑，印度仍拥有一个充满活力的科技领域， 众多企业家渴望颠覆那些保守的传统企业。

The most fanatical believers envisaged a future in which the tech would take over the financial world, displacing stodgy existing institutions.

最狂热的信徒们设想了一个未来， 科技将接管金融世界，取代那些保守的传统机构。

Competition may stiffen; in May ey decided to spin off its consulting arm to unshackle it from the stodgy audit business.

竞争可能会加剧； 5 月，ey 决定剥离其咨询部门，以摆脱乏味的审计业务。

Although stodgy, " The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" is the kind of well-oiled, theatrical vehicle that actors love being part of.

尽管乏味，《凯恩叛变军事法庭》却是演员们喜欢参与的那种运转良好的戏剧载体。