fuddy-duddy

Her boss is such a fuddy-duddy , he won't allow her to chew gum or smoke cigarettes on the job.

她的老板古板得要命，不准她在工作时嚼口香糖或抽烟。

Her boss is such a fuddy-duddy. He won't allow her to chew gum on the job.

她的老板古板的要命。不准她在工作室吃口香糖。

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。

The latter regards her hardworking, dowdy sister as a pitiful fuddy-duddy who has forgotten the meaning of romance.

而后者把她的这个苦干的过时的姐妹视为一个可怜的忘掉浪漫的意义的老古董。

Professor Jones is an old fuddy-duddy.

琼斯教授是一个老古董。

You may be single, widowed, divorced, 1 or even a married woman with a fuddy-duddy hubby who doesn't like to travel.

你可能是单身、丧夫、离婚，甚或嫁了一位不喜欢旅游的老古板丈夫。