词汇 | stuffily |
释义 | stuffily adverb uk /ˈstʌf.əl.i/ us /ˈstʌf.əl.i/ in a way that is old-fashioned, formal, and boring: 古板地,保守地,一本正经地 It was a stuffily old-fashioned church.那是一座古板乏味的教堂。 "I beg your pardon, " she said somewhat stuffily.“你再说一遍?!”她一本正经地说。 The hotel manager stuffily informed us that children were not allowed in the dining room. He replied rather stuffily that he did not concern himself with "ephemera". These firms typically have stuffily prosaic names like "Blue Ridge" or "Highridge". Tedious and uninspiring (as) dull as ditchwateridiom anonymous banal banally basic marginal marmoreal meh menial menially staid staidly stale staleness stodgily watch paint dryidiom watch the clockidiom wearisome wearisomely weary Seestuffy Examples of stuffilystuffily She heard the noise of scissors dropped on the floor--the most stuffily domestic sound in the world. From Project Gutenberg Ten o'clock bumped stuffily into eleven; the hours clogged and caught and slowed down. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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