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But it has always been expensive, and a bit stodgy.

不过，它的价格也一直很高，而且内容有些枯燥。

The nimble Obama startup is about to be absorbed into a stodgy, technologically backward behemoth: the federal government.

机敏的奥巴马以一个令人专注的关于一个技术落后庞然大物的故事开始：那就是联邦政府。

Gradually it acquired its own editorial voice, and with it a somewhat stodgy image.

慢慢地，有声音呼唤读者文摘自己的编辑，因为那时它的形象真有点让人乏味。

Toyota's upscale Lexus brand is set for a design shake-up as it battles to revive stodgy sales and a slipping image among young car buyers.

丰田（Toyota）旗下高档品牌雷克萨斯（Lexus）正计划进行一次设计上的变革，以竭力提振停滞的销售量，挽救该品牌在年轻购车者群体中逐渐下滑的形象。

Now the stodgy Japanese bureaucracy is considered one of the main impediments to an economic revival.

但现在因循守旧的日本官僚主义已被视为其经济复苏的主要障碍之一。

When you think about it, lots of British dishes are stodgy. Things like pies.

当你想起这个，很多英国食物的确是很油腻的。比如派。

That's a big turnaround from just a decade ago, when stodgy and poorly run state enterprises dominated the economy.

这和十年前的情况发生了巨大变化，当时机制臃肿、经营不善的国有企业仍主宰着中国经济。

PC makers might also be saddled with perceptions of being stodgy and less than cool.

消费者对PC制造商可能也有产品笨重、不够炫等先入为主的看法。

What was once viewed as a stodgy legal asset is fast becoming a sought-after financial one.

这曾经一度被视为乏味的合法资产，如今正迅速成为吃香的投资品种。

Maggie: You see, I can't wear this. Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable.

麦琪：瞧，我知道我不能穿这个，护送人应该穿的既庄重又大方。

But a depressing precedent has been set by incumbent telecoms firms, which, like most banks, are stodgy bureaucracies at heart.

但是一个沮丧的先例已经被现任的电信公司设定，就像大多数的银行一样，在中心还是古板僵化官僚。

In the book , the sentence and word are no longer that stodgy, I can tell the author's simple and special American English.

书中的句子和单词不再是那么死板，我体会了作者简洁独特的美式英语。

It's a relaxed motorway cru ises, but the price you pay for the comfort is less-than-sharp handling, and it feels stodgy in corners.

这是一个轻松的高速公路巡洋舰，但价格为您的舒适薪酬低于尖锐处理，感觉平庸的角落。

To her surprise, there wasn't a stodgy storage container in sight at the party.

但令她吃惊的是，聚会上并没有看到乏味的贮藏容器。

He had a stodgy , dusty, commonplace look to him which was more a matter of mind than of body.

他有一副索然无味的，灰蒙蒙的平庸的样子，就他说来，这多半是思想的毛病，而不是相貌的毛。

If you cannot resist a stodgy cake or chips, it may not be simply down to lack of willpower.

如果你无法抵制油腻的蛋糕或是薯条的诱惑，那可不仅仅是因为缺乏意志力。

But rare-earth mining was a stodgy industry in those days, selling mostly to petroleum producers.

但在当前，稀土开采行业表现平平，多数产品都是卖给石油生产商。

His camera style is stodgy, and his handling of a delicate subject lurid but not invigorating.

他的相机的风格就是死板，他的一个棘手的问题，耸人听闻的处理，但没有朝气。

This kind of lactose, human body can be digested in the baby, absorb, but after be brought up stodgy .

这种乳糖，人体在婴儿能够消化、吸收，但长大后就不易消化了。

I've been testing the new Torch with BlackBerry 6, and I view it as a big improvement over earlier, stodgy BlackBerry models.

我最近一直在试用安装了黑莓6系统的新款Torch手机，我认为它比起早先那种笨重的黑莓手机的确是一个很大的改进。