Usage examples of "stodgy" in English with translation to Russian

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Oh, stop acting like I'm some stodgy old coot. О, прекрати делать вид, будто я скучный старый простак.

If I fill that area in with iceberg roses, will it make the gray shingles look stodgy? Если я посажу сюда розы "Айсберг", серые черепицы не будут выглядеть скучно?

But if you know anything about the history of Britannica since 1962, it was anything but radical: still a very completely safe, stodgy type of encyclopedia. Но, зная историю развития Британники после 1962 года, можно с уверенностью утверждать: она была какой угодно, только не радикальной: совсем наоборот - совершенно традиционная, скучная энциклопедия.

Now, I went one step further and said, "Why do we have to stick with the stodgy lawyers and just have a paper document? Let's go online." Я на этом не остановился. Я подумал: "А отчего мы должны полагаться на неоригинальных юристов и иметь лишь бумажный документ. Разместим всё в Интернет!"

At the time, as a young Indian recently relocated to the West, I didn't want to be associated with stodgy parents who patiently folded used wrapping paper and stored it under their mattress. В то время недавно переехавшая на Запад молодая индианка, я не хотела быть связанной с тяжеловесными родителями, которые терпеливо складывали использованную упаковочную бумагу и хранили ее под своим матрасом.

Of course, the example of her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and other stories about French male behavior that would count as clear sexual harassment in the stodgy US, suggest that perhaps a bit more feminisme a la Française is in order. Конечно, пример ее предшественника, Доминика Стросс-Кана и другие истории о французском мужском поведении, которые считаются явным сексуальным домогательством в закоснелых США, показывают, что, возможно, немного больше феминизма на французский манер является уместным.

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