Eventually the forms settled into a staid and stable middle age.

最后那些形态进人了固定、稳定中年阶段。

Kind of a staid affair for early '90s, post punk math rock, don't you think?

对于90年代早期后朋克慢摇来说 这会不会太了你不觉得吗？

Blair's bachelorette party seems like it's going to be a very staid affair.

布莱尔说单身派对要办得保守一点不要有什么出格举动。

They generally reject both the staid habits of mainstream African papers and the narrow preoccupations of much Western writing about the continent.

们通常既反感非洲主流报纸古板保守习惯，也排斥许多西方媒体对非洲大陆狭隘成见。

Won't you come in, good folk? she cried, But they were too bashful, and staid outside, Though Pray come in! cried Gustava.

“你们不进来吗，善良居民？”她呼唤，可是它们太害羞，宁愿留在外面，“请进来吧！”古斯塔瓦还是大声喊。

The developer JBG Smith had recently acquired much of the land and buildings there and was trying to spruce up the staid streets.

开发商“JBG史密斯”最近收购了那里大部分土地和建筑，并试图修整那些古板街道。

A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

生活是一连串丰富多彩哑剧，以行动回答一切。

Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.

这样难得抖来抖去，使得上司，那个沉着斯达巴克，也暂时不声不响地听独自张罗去了。

Over a 14-year stint at the Sunday Times he had turned a staid, class-bound broad-sheet into a compelling, dramatic newspaper with-a first for Britain-a glossy colour magazine.

在为《星期日泰晤士报》工作了14年多时间里，把一份古板、面向特定阶级大报变成了一份引人注目、激动人心报纸，还有一份色彩亮丽彩色杂志——这在英国还是第一次。

Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside— East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

这伙人不到处转悠，而是正襟危坐，自成一体，并且俨然自封为农村贵族代表——东卵人屈尊光临西卵，们小心翼翼，提防灯红酒绿欢乐会有损体面。