stodgy
adj. <英,貶>(食物)吃下去感覺撐的; 易飽的; 滯澀的; 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.
他討厭吃倫敦賣的難以下嚥的比薩餅。
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.
他們沒修養,很乏味,是一群無聊古板的老傢伙。
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.
透過整合實現了諸國從笨拙的前蘇聯屬國向經濟發動機的轉變.
I want something to read. These volumes are stodgy.
我要一些可讀的東西, 這些書本本枯燥乏味.
Why is the middle class so stodgy , so utterly without a sense of humor?
為什麼中產階級如此古板, 沒有一點幽默感?
The gateman was a stodgy fellow of 60.
看門人是個六十歲的矮胖子.
After reading these stodgy philosophers, I find his pellucid style very enjoyable.
在閱讀這些乏味的哲學家, 我覺得他的透明風格非常愉快.