fusty

英 [ˈfʌsti]

美 [ˈfʌsti]

adj.  腐臭的; 霉湿味的; 过时的; 守旧的

GRE

BNC.43201 / COCA.37995

牛津词典

adj.

• 腐臭的；霉湿味的
  smelling old, damp or not fresh
  1. a dark fusty room
     阴暗霉湿的房间
• 过时的；守旧的
  old-fashioned
  1. fusty ideas
     守旧的思想
  2. a fusty old professor
     古板的老教授

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (想法或人)过时的，守旧的
  If you describe something or someone asfusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas.
  1. The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.
     这一古板的老旧机构拒绝承认人们对流行音乐的需求。
• ADJ-GRADED 发霉味的;朽霉的
  Afustyplace or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant.
  1. ...fusty old carpets.
     发霉味的旧地毯

英英释义

adj

• old-fashioned and out of date
  Synonym:standpat(a)unprogressivenonprogressive
• stale and unclean smelling
  Synonym:mustyfrowsty

双语例句

• So, while bow ties still seem fusty for older generations, for young men they have become a symbol of counter-culture.
  因此，尽管领结似乎仍然意味着发霉的老一代，但对年轻人来说，它们已成为反文化的象征。
• I don't think he lets his clothes dry properly before he puts them away somehow they always smell fusty.
  我想他把衣服放起来之前没有把它们好好地弄干&小知怎的，总有股霉味。
• But by 2007 though foreign tourists still made the nostalgic journey to the fusty old landmark where rooms cost about$ 100 a night the hotel was overcome by damp and decay.
  但到2007年，尽管外国游客还会花上每晚约100美元，去这个过时的旧地标做一次怀旧之旅，但整座饭店都充斥着一股潮腐的味道。
• Until a few years ago, most of the five-star hotels in Tokyo were fusty affairs.
  几年前，东京的大部分五星级酒店都很破旧。
• A genuine, if seemingly clueless, attempt to shed a fusty "old media" image and forge ahead into the glorious digital future?
  还是为了摆脱发霉的“传统媒体”形象，勇敢地迈入辉煌的数字化未来而进行的一种真正意义上（但看似没有什么章法）的尝试？
• The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.
  这一古板的老旧机构拒绝承认人们对流行音乐的需求。
• The audience is also puzzled by those fusty and arid proclaims, critics and satires, which pretend to be the forever essence of female artists.
  观众们的观看也是如此，似乎那些与女性的身份地位有关的陈腐而无趣的宣言，批判，讽刺，永远都会是女性艺术的核心。
• But critics complain that they also seek to extend fusty regulations from the era of broadcast television to today's very different technologies.
  但是批评家指出他们还要改进那些广播电视时代的旧法条，以（适应）时下已全然不同的新技术。
• I was sent to a fusty old school in the country.
  我被送进了乡下一所古老守旧的学校。
• Most of all, they are part of a Zeitgeist in which the law is increasingly a global business like any other, rather than a fusty industry remote from the wider financial world.
  最重要的是，它们是时代精神的一部分：和其它任何行业一样，法律已经日益成为全球事业，而不是与广阔金融世界脱离的古板行业。