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

这本书年代已久，甚至算上枯燥晦涩。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.

它们提供了一种受欢迎的方式，让们从大多数MBA课程的乏味内容中解脱出来。

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。- 所以才把它们才放在一边啊。

That slow, stodgy white line up there?

那里那条缓慢、呆板的白线？

Are you saying we've become stodgy?

奥黛丽：你是说我们变古板了？

Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable.

家长应该穿大方体，而且要庸俗。

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

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。

I find them a bit stodgy, that's all.

我觉罐装的更好吃。

He doesn't seem stodgy at all, or that old.

他似乎一点不乏味 也没那么老。

And this rotting, stodgy rathole could use somebody like her.

在这个腐蚀的 油腻的鼠洞需要她这样的孩子。

You think that dress is stodgy?

这件衣服庸俗？

Swathes of the economy are dominated by state-owned firms, which tend to be stodgy and change-averse.

经济领域由国有企业主导，这些企业往往古板且不愿改变。

We're at the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, which is this big, stodgy brownstone with lots of mahogany.

JAD：我们在曼哈顿的马歇尔国际象棋俱乐部，这是一座又大又古板的褐砂石建筑，里面有很多桃花心木。

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。

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。

" To be stodgy" means to be very old-fashioned, to think the way people thought 50 years ago or 100 years ago.

“to be stodgy” 的意思是非常守旧， 以50年前或100年前们的方式思考。

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，正如预测，汉尼拔放弃意大利保卫迦太基故土。

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。