Oh, stop acting like I'm some stodgy old coot. I've grown.

别总觉得我是个老顽固 我已经进步了。

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

这本书年代已久，甚至算得上枯燥晦涩。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.

它们提供了种受人欢迎的方式，让人们从大多数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：你是说我们变得古板了？

Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable.

家长应该穿得大方得体，而且要庸俗。

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

人们普遍认为，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.

我觉得罐装的更好吃。

Fisker baffled the Tesla teams with his stodgy designs.

菲斯克以其古板的设计让特斯拉团队感到困惑。

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

他似乎点不乏味 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，这是座又大又古板的褐砂石建筑，里面有很多桃花心木。

But Kubera was a bald dwarf with a round belly, and stodgy fingers crowded with sparkling rings.

但库贝拉是个秃顶的矮人， 有着圆圆的肚子， 笨拙的手指上挤满了闪闪发光的戒指。

The sound of their laughter made Jane feel stodgy and left out, even though she'd been invited.

他们的笑声让简觉得自己很呆板，被冷落了，尽管她被邀请了。

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。