1. She laughed to herself, then looked sideways at this stodgy nurse. 她顾自大笑起来，然后斜眼看了看这个墨守成规的护士。
2. Maggie: You see, I can't wear this. Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable. 麦琪：瞧，我知道我不能穿这个，护送人应该穿的既庄重又大方。
3. Short-sighted cost-cutting and the imposition of stodgy GM engineering resulted in Saabs that were no longer special. 目光短浅的削减投资，强加以古板的通用工程师，都导致了如今毫无特色的萨博。
英英解释
adj.
1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest
2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
3. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
