1·Traveling is my life. I love to travel. I'm not a stick in the mud.
旅行是我的最爱。 我爱旅行。 我不喜欢老是待在一个地 方不动。
2·You may say my husband is a stick in the mud, but on my part I like his personality of that kind.
你可以说我的丈夫是个老古董，不过我倒是很喜欢他的这种性格。
3·Any narrow mind, like a stick in the mud, goes against the tide of The Times. Brave people should keep fighting with those narrow ideas.
任何井底之蛙的狭隘心态都是和时代潮流相违背的，勇敢的人们应该同这种狭隘观念作持续的斗争。
4·To them, I must sound like a stick in the mud. Unless the medication they're taking is not working, however, I'm generally reluctant to change.
对于他们来说，我看起来对这些新药并不感兴趣，但是，一般来说，这种情况很难改变，除非他们吃这些新药没有任何作用。
5·And a recent poll showed that 65% of people in Stick-in-the-mud Greece want civil servants to lose their job security.
最近的一项调查显示，希腊65%的保守派民众希望公务员丧失现在对他们工作的保障。
6·You see, dear, I know that the Stick-in-the-mud people are doing us a good turn and themselves a bad one by going back to secret trials and executions as soon.
亲爱的，你知道，我心中有数：那些深陷泥潭不能自拔的人们，如此匆匆地重施故技，进行秘密审讯和处决，正好给了我们一个大好的转机，而给他们自己一个倒霉的时刻。
7·With a stick he stirred up the mud in the pond.
他用地根棍子把池塘里的泥搅了起来。
8·The man next door looks young in his outlook, but he is an old stick-in-the-mud. He never goes out or has friends in he just sits around in front of the TV, the great American sedative.
隔壁那人看来年纪轻轻，但是从来不出去，也不邀请朋友来家里，他只是坐在电视机跟前消磨时光，跟七老八十的人一样暮气沉沉。
9·You may say that I am a Stick-in-the-mud, but I don't like Canton pop.
你可以说我是一个老古董，但我不喜欢粤语流行曲。
10·Mr Johnes is an old Stick-in-the-mud: you'll never persuade him to change at all.
琼斯先生是一个墨守成规的人：你们根本无法说服他有所居改变。