| 单词 | 古板 |
| 释义 | 〔prim〕Strait-laced; prudish.极严谨的，古板的，学究的〔stodgy〕Prim or pompous; stuffy:古板的或做作的；保守的：〔starchy〕"this starchy, old-fashioned hotel room"(Anne Tyler)“这外古板、老式的旅馆房间”(安妮·泰勒)〔stodgy〕"Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humor!”(Katherine Mansfield)See Synonyms at dull “为什么中产资级那么古板——丝毫没有幽默感！”(凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德) 参见 dull〔and〕It is frequently asserted that sentences beginning withand or but express "incomplete thoughts" and are therefore incorrect. But this rule was ridiculed by grammarians like Wilson Follett (who ascribed it to "schoolmarmish rhetoric") and H.W. Fowler (who called it a "superstition"),and the stricture has been ignored by writers from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf.Members of the Usage Panel were asked whether they paid attention to the rule in their own writing:24 percent answered "always or usually,” 36 percent answered "sometimes,” and 40 percent answered "rarely or never.”See Usage Note at both ,but ,try ,with 通常认为用and 或 but 开始的句子表达“不完整的思想”，因而是不正确的。 但这条规则被一些语法学家所嘲弄，如威尔逊·弗莱特（称之为“古板的修辞”），和H·W福勒（称之为“迷信”），从莎士比亚到弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫之间的作家都忽视了这条规定。当用法专题小组的成员被问到在他们的自己写作中是否也注意到这条规则时：24%的人回答“一直是这样或一般是这样”，36%的人回答“有时这样”，40%的人回答“很少或从来没有” 参见 both,but,try,with〔starch〕Stiff behavior.古板：拘泥的行为〔prudish〕Marked by or exhibiting the characteristics of a prude; priggish.过分拘谨：带有或显示出一个过分拘谨的人的特征的；古板的〔starchy〕Stiff; formal:古板的：僵硬的；正式的： |
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