" I particularly enjoyed your description of me as an obsolete dingbat."

“我特别爱读你把我描写一个僵化的老疯子的那一段。”

The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.

农场那座粉刷白了的砖房如同落在茫茫红海中的一个岛屿，那是一起由新月形巨浪组的大海，但是当那些带粉红红尖顶的水波分裂为浪花时，它立即僵化了。

There is a risk that over time a firm's social capital erodes, creativity flags, hierarchies ossify and team spirit fades, as Mr Hastings fears.

这样下去，企业会逐渐临社会资本被侵蚀、流失、层级僵化和团队精神淡化的风险，这也正是哈斯廷斯所担心的。

As both Mr Keohane and Mr Yates emphasise, in Britain and America political divisions have ossified into tribal ones.

正如基奥恩和耶茨所强调的那样，在英国和美国，政治分歧已经僵化为部落分歧。

But maybe, maybe what's really under threat is the static mindset.

或许真正临威胁的，是那种一不变的僵化思维。

It's really critical where that front line is because at some stage, the conflict becomes more frozen and the politics will be determined about where that front line is.

前线在哪里真的很关键，因为在某个阶段，冲突会变得更加僵化，政治将会决定前线在哪里。

But to avoid becoming misaligned, it's been developed to be incredibly rigid about its beliefs.

但为了避免错误观点，它被研其信仰无比的僵化。

But this is too rigid—even the Soviet Union limited itself to five-year plans.

但这一预算过于僵化，就连当初苏联（Soviet Union）所定的计划期限也仅为五年。

And the reason is the tax is too high and the bureaucracy is too great.

（目前困难的）原因在于税收过高、体制过于僵化。

Both suffer crippling rigidities in their economies.

两国经济体均严重僵化死板。但是意大利的财政又有足够多不同点，其经济体也有足够强的潜。

It's too easy to say he's just ideologically rigid.

你可不能说他只是思想僵化。

These seem to be what's called " fossilized mistakes" .

这些似乎就是所谓的“僵化的错误”。

Looking at the thumbnail rundowns in Writer's Digest may help ( “… publishes mostly mainstream fiction, 2,000-4,000 words, steer clear of stereotyped characters and hackneyed romance situations” ) , but a thumbnail is, leave us face it, just a thumbnail.

看看《作家文摘》里那些短小的提要大概会你有所启（“… … 主要刊登主流小说，长度大约两千到四千单词，注意避免僵化脸谱式人物或是俗气老套的浪漫场景”)，但是话说回来，提要终究只是提要而已。

He came to power with a certain vision of the country he wanted to see, though that isn't to say he had a clear policy programme or a rigid ideological agenda for achieving it.

他上台时他希望看到的国家有一定的愿景，尽管这并不是说他有一个明确的政策方案或实现这一目标的僵化意识形态的日程安排。

A rigid personality pattern, held tightly in a vice of shall we say extremely immobile, subconscious psychosis, is unable to find release through healthy channels, and cannot arise into the mobile world of creation.

一个僵化的人格模式，紧抓着可以说是极不稳定的，潜意识的精神病态不放，是无法通过健康的渠道找到释放，也无法出现在流动的世界中。

In arterioles, a process called hyaline arteriolosclerosis is where the walls of arterioles where they develop hyaline deposits, which are the deposits of proteins, and these make them hard and inflexible.

小动脉会出现透明样细小动脉硬化，即小动脉的血管壁上产生了透明质酸沉积，即蛋白质沉积物，而这些物质让小动脉僵化变硬。

Now then, right at this spot the sea covers entire forests that sank underwater in prehistoric times; today, turned to stone, transformed into carbon fuel, they offer me inexhaustible coal mines.

现在僵化石了，变为煤炭了，我来说，它们是采不尽的矿藏。

Housed in a restored Edwardian pump house is The People’s History Museum, which celebrates those who challenged Britain’s rigid political and class systems.

修復後的愛德華式抽水房 如今是人民歷史博物館 (People’s History Museum)，表彰当时英国僵化的政治 与阶级制度挑战的勇气。

To do your part in contributing to a world that does not rely on rigid dogma, but actually is able to be present.

尽自己的一份量，为建立一个不依赖于僵化教条的世界作出贡献，但实际上是能够在场。

Our decisions will be guided by our values and our goals and we will reject the path of inflexible ideology that too often leads to unintended consequences.

我们的决策将被我们的价值观和目标所引导我们将反僵化的意识形态。太多时候, 这给我们都带来了意想不到的后果。