| 词汇 | staid |
| 释义 | staidWord family adverbstaidlyadjectivestaidnounstaidness staid /steɪd/ adjectiveadj BORINGserious, old-fashioned, and boring 严肃呆板的；古板的；枯燥的 a staid old bachelor 一个古板的老光棍 Examples from the Corpus staid• The staid and once-serious network news has begun to look like glitzy local news operations.• Let us assume that Mr Peter Porter, an otherwise staid bureaucrat, spends his free time racing Porsche cars.• Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time.• The group managed to seem staid in comparison to Rollins' music.• It was high time that her church-and the staid old-line Protestants-got a run for the money.• They are the men and women who start vibrant new companies, turn around failing companies, and shake up staid ones.• staid scientific journals• The sentence I had just written in a staid serif typeface suddenly was pushed leeward.• She bought a long lease on the apartment in quiet and respectable Hahnwald, a leafy and staid suburb of Cologne.• Square-cut and staid to behold, it packs a potent punch quite at odds with its looks. (1500-1600) From the past participle of stay |
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