stuffed shirt

noun

1. 一本正经的人；古板的人；保守的人
   a person who is very serious, formal or old-fashioned

1. N-COUNT (尤指身居要职的)一本正经的人，古板的人，保守的人
   If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a stuffed shirt, you mean that they are extremely formal and old-fashioned.
   1. In a pinstriped suit he instantly looked like a stuffed shirt.
      穿上一套细条纹西装后，他马上就显得一本正经起来。

1. In a pinstriped suit he instantly looked like a stuffed shirt.
   穿上一套细条纹西装后，他马上就显得一本正经起来。
2. Soon, another fan with a stuffed panda peels off his shirt and joins him.
   不一会儿，另一个体育迷手持一个胖胖的熊猫玩偶加入了他的热舞行列。
3. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt.
   他把弹弓塞回进衬衣内。
4. This is the moral side of the problem. He only seems like a stuffed shirt when you first meet him.
   这是问题的道德层面。只有初次见面时，他看起来才会显得道貌岸然。
5. He only seems like a stuffed shirt when you first meet him.
   只有初次见面时，他看起来才会显得道貌岸然。
6. That new employee is a stuffed shirt.
   那个雇员是个自命不凡的人。
7. Peter is nothing but a fly on the wheel. He's nothing but a stuffed shirt.
   彼得不过是个妄自尊大的人而已。他不过是个妄自尊大的人。
8. He is a stuffed shirt type of professor.
   （他是位自大型的教授。）（？形容？）
9. Everybody knows that Lynn is just a stuffed shirt.
   大家都知道林恩只是个自命不凡的讨厌鬼。
10. Though Smith is just an ordinary employee in this company, he acts like a stuffed shirt.
    虽然史密斯只是这个公司里的一个普通职员，但他的行为却象一个自命不凡的人。
11. As a further incentive, when the middle-class students graduate, Harvard gives them their first stuffed shirt.
    为了更加刺激他们，当这些中等阶级学生毕业的时候，还给他们一次摆阔的机会。
12. My boss is a stuffed shirt, bragging all the time.
    我的老板神气十足，整天在吹嘘。
13. Take, for example, the experience of a first-time British visitor to Greece. He only seems like a stuffed shirt when you first meet him.
    就拿一个初次到希腊的英国人的经历来说吧。只有初次见面时，他看起来才会显得道貌岸然。
14. Don't invite him, he's such a stuffed shirt.
    别邀请他，他呆板得让人受不了。
15. Jimmy ins't a stuffed shirt like Elegant& he's a friendly, informal guy like us ordinary people.
    布朗不像利兰那么神气活现。他很友好、随和，就像我们普通老百姓一样。
16. Your neighbour's a bit of a stuffed shirt. He seems very proud and serious, and he never smiles of jokes with anyone.
    你的邻居是一个有点自命不凡的人。他好象很高傲并且很严肃，从不对别人微笑或同别人说笑话。

noun

1. a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned