fusty

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈfʌs.ti]
• 美式音标 [ˈfʌs.ti]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj.旧式的；陈腐的；发霉的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Under Mr Blair, fusty old Britain has become an international exemplar of openness.
  在布莱尔先生治下，古板的旧英国成了代表“开放”的国际典范。
• This, his third gardening book, is also his first in 25 years, but little here feels fusty or irrelevant.
  这是他出的第三本书，上次出书还是25年前。 但是书中几乎没有过时和离题的内容。
• 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。

权威例句

• VatiLeaks, as the scandal came to be known, dragged the fusty institution into the wild WikiLeaks era.
  FORBES: Don't Expect Pope Francis To Change The Vatican Anytime Soon
• He gave people brash game shows and imported soaps, sweeping away the fusty piety that had previously dominated the media.
  NEWYORKER: Booted
• During its first term, the answers the party came up with involved ditching allusions to fusty traditions and insisting that Britain was a young country.
  ECONOMIST: An old approach to history is new again

词组短语

短语

• fusty y 有霉味的
• fusty musty 霉臭的
• fusty y a 陈腐的

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (SMELL) not fresh and smelling unpleasant especially because of being left slightly wet
• (OLD-FASHIONED) old-fashioned in ideas and beliefs

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe something or someone as fusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas.
• A fusty place or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant.

专业释义

生物学

• 发霉的
• 腐败的