stodgy

英 [ˈstɒdʒi]

美 [ˈstɑːdʒi]

adj.  吃下去感觉撑的; 易饱的; 滞涩的; 古板的; 枯燥无味的

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BNC.32974 / COCA.21383

牛津词典

adj.

• 吃下去感觉撑的；易饱的
  heavy and making you feel very full
• 滞涩的；古板的；枯燥无味的
  serious and boring; not exciting

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (食物)硬实的，难消化的，使人胀饱的
  Stodgyfood is very solid and heavy. It makes you feel very full, and is difficult to digest.
  1. He was disgusted with the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
     他讨厌吃伦敦卖的难以下咽的比萨饼。
• ADJ-GRADED 古板的;令人厌烦的;枯燥乏味的
  If you describe someone or something asstodgy, you dislike them or are bored by them because they are very old-fashioned or serious.
  1. They're not cultured or interesting, they are boring stodgy old things.
     他们没修养，很乏味，是一群无聊古板的老家伙。

英英释义

adj

• excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
  1. why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
  2. a stodgy dinner party
  Synonym:stuffy
• (used pejoratively) out of fashion
  1. moss-grown ideas about family life
  Synonym:fogyishmoss-grownmossystick-in-the-mud(p)
• heavy and starchy and hard to digest
  1. stodgy food
  2. a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full

双语例句

• His doctor told him to avoid stodgy food like bread and potatoes.
  他的医生让他避免吃像面包和土豆之类的高淀粉的食物。
• Income stocks have a reputation. They're boring. They're stodgy.
  高息股有一种名声在外的说法，就是这些股票沉闷而笨拙。
• The fellow was stodgy and solemn.
  那家伙古板乏味，一本正经。
• I mean I'm not talking about these stodgy wives, pug.
  我的意思不是说那些老古板的女人，帕格。
• Drowsiness induced by a stodgy meal.
  饱餐一顿后引起的困倦。
• They clearly did not cherish the idea of working for a stodgy state enterprise, an autocratic government, or what they deemed to be an opportunistic foreign multinational.
  很明显，他们对在刻板的国有企业、一个威权政府或他们他们认为带有投机心理的外企里工作并不太感冒。
• These were not the old stodgy ads listing goods for sale.
  这不是那种列明打折商品的旧式、乏味的广告。
• I guess they needed it, for history indicated that medieval recipes were heavy and stodgy.
  我猜想，当时的人们需要吃姜来帮助消化。因为史料记载，中世纪人们的食谱口味重、油腻。
• As usual the occasion was marked by gifts of stodgy pastries known as mooncakes, often containing a solid yolk representing that day's full moon.
  在这个重大的节日里照常以送月饼&这种填馅的糕饼作为礼物。月饼常常以蛋黄做馅代表中秋的满月。
• When it learned that some customers considered the chain stodgy, Five Star developed a new icon: cartoon characters that appear to be drawn by Hollywood animators.
  当了解到一些顾客认为其企业标识较为平庸之后，五星电器设计了一个新的标识，看上去就像好莱坞动画专家绘制的卡通人物一样。