fuddy-duddy

常见例句

Stephen loves pop culture, and not being seen as a fuddy-duddy.
史蒂芬喜爱流行文化，也不像是个唠叨的守旧者”。
And woe betide the CEO who missed the game and looked like an old fuddy-duddy.
那些悲哀的CEO，没有跟上潮流错过这场游戏的，就像是“老古董”。
Tony Blair* and Gordon Brown* talked excitedly about “transforming” Whitehall* and its fuddy-duddy ways.
托尼·布莱尔和戈登·布朗总是激动地向人们谈论正在改变的英国政府和它先前种种的传统老路。

We tend to think of this as an old fuddy-duddy document, it's outdated, has outdated ideas, and I think the challenge of this course is that you read the Bible with fresh eyes so that you can appreciate it for what it was, in many ways what it continues to be: a revolutionary, cultural critique.
人们总把它看做陈旧古板的文件，很过时，里面的内容也跟不上时代，我认为我们这门课的一个很大挑战就是,大家要用一个全新的认识来读圣经,这样你们才能真正品味到其中的韵味,而且在很多方面，它还是革命性的文化评论。
耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Translation: The best performers were the sorts of fuddy-duddy stocks (see table) that most investors assume will be duds and shun.
FORBES: Money & Investing
In contrast, Apple's ads have neatly-wrapped cutting attacks on Windows Vista in a humorous schtick that depicts the PC user as a fumbling fuddy-duddy and the Mac user as worldy, wise and hip.
FORBES: SiliConsumed
Thinking Kinder was too much of a fuddy-duddy, too wedded to the fading pipeline business and lacking the swashbuckling style needed to run a company so clearly destined to remake the worlds of dealmaking and energy trading, they withheld the top job.
FORBES: Rich Kinder's Energy Kingdom