Income stocks have a reputation. They're boring. They're stodgy.(高息股有一种名声在外的说法,就是这些股票沉闷而笨拙。)
And actually, not all of the employees are old and stodgy.(实际上,并不是所有IBM的员工都是年纪大的老古董。)
Brian's culinary delights soon dispel the myth that traditional English meat and three veg fare is stodgy and dull.(布赖恩的厨艺让人高兴,并且很快驱走了传统的英国肉菜和三个蔬菜的伙食厚腻不好消化,让人乏味的流言。)
Digicel has prospered by introducing modern technology and innovative services into stodgy, uncompetitive markets.(在这个落后的无竞争力的市场上,迪吉·塞尔集团凭借现代科技和创新性的服务,已经取得了巨大的成功。)
As a teen, Savannah Lengsfelder thought the stodgy old men she saw on C-SPAN had no connection to her life.(作为一名青少年,萨凡纳认为电视上那些索然无味的老人们与她的生活无关。)
When stodgy European firms decide they, too, can become agile, they sometimes come to grief.(当步履沉重的欧洲公司决定,它们也可以变得灵活时,结果有时是令人悲哀的。)
The gateman was a stodgy fellow of60.(看门人是个六十岁的矮胖子。)
In other words, investors get paid more to hold equities (with all their growth prospects) than stodgy government bonds.(换句话说,投资者拿着股票(拥有他们的所有的增长前景)比拿着无聊的国债得到的钱要多。)
Not content simply to jettison its stodgy image on the racks, Burberry has also been digitally savvy.(不满足于仅仅抛弃其顽固的形象于货架上,Burberry还在数码科技上变得更加精明。)
Sure, it may seem a little stodgy at times, but the basics never lose their cool.(当然,它有时或许会有些枯燥,但是基本要素永远都很重要。)