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

这本书年代已久，甚至算上枯燥晦涩。但它背后的故事却相当精。

They provide a welcome diversion from the stodgy content that marks out most MBA courses.

它们提供了一种受人欢迎的方式，让人们从大多数MBA课程的乏味内容中解脱出来。

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。

Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable.

家长应该穿大方体，而且要庸俗。

I find them a bit stodgy, that's all.

我觉罐装的更好吃。

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？

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

他似乎一点不乏味 么老。

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。

Investors are now betting that these two firms, together with Stripe and Adyen (which is Dutch), form a quartet that can take on America's stodgy financial establishment.

投资者们估计，这两家公司连同Stripe和Adyen（荷兰公司）打算四家联手与美国古板的金融机构展开较量。

But Scipio was not one to listen to stodgy old men or superstitious priests. Scipio invaded Africa and, as predicted, Hannibal abandoned Italy to defend the Carthaginian homeland.

西庇阿却不愿听老家伙的建议不愿听从些迷信的牧师，西庇阿侵略非洲，正如预测，汉尼拔放弃意大利保卫迦太基故土。