英
[ste?d]
美
[ste?d]
- adj. 固定的；（指人﹑ 外表﹑ 行為﹑ 愛(ài)好等）古板的；保守的；一本正經(jīng)的
staid的用法和樣例：
例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
- He does this by transmitting not a staid image but a simulacra.
他不是通過(guò)傳輸固定的圖像而是傳輸某種擬像而做到了這一點(diǎn)。 - The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.
博物館力圖改變自己古板的形象。 - I always thought of him as a rather staid old gentleman.
我一直以為他是個(gè)相當古板的紳士。 - The locals were a very staid lot.
當地居民非常保守。 - We think of the Puritans as staid people.
我們認為清教徒是很穩重的人。
詞匯搭配
- stay 停留
經(jīng)典引文
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It was a staid, respectable magazine.
出自： J. London -
Off duty, staid Scottish lawyers..let their hair down.
出自： L. Kennedy -
They were as close to bohemians as staid Northampton could produce.
出自： Anne Stevenson
