stodgy
adj. <英,贬>(食物)吃下去感觉撑的; 易饱的; 滞涩的; 古板的
Stodgy food is very solid and heavy. It makes you feel very full, and is difficult to digest.
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。
If you describe someone or something as stodgy, you dislike them or are bored by them because they are very old-fashioned or serious.
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。
1. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
2. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull;
U . membership , and in doing so shepherded their makeovers from stodgy Soviet vassals into economic dynamos.
通过整合实现了诸国从笨拙的前苏联属国向经济发动机的转变.
I want something to read. These volumes are stodgy.
我要一些可读的东西, 这些书本本枯燥乏味.
Why is the middle class so stodgy , so utterly without a sense of humor?
为什么中产阶级如此古板, 没有一点幽默感?
The gateman was a stodgy fellow of 60.
看门人是个六十岁的矮胖子.
After reading these stodgy philosophers, I find his pellucid style very enjoyable.
在阅读这些乏味的哲学家, 我觉得他的透明风格非常愉快.