词汇释义
fusty TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈfʌs.ti/ US /ˈfʌs.ti/
1. adj, (disapproval) If you describe something or someone as fusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas. (想法或人)过时的，守旧的
2. adj, A fusty place or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant. 发霉味的，朽霉的
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外刊例句
1. It kept cutting costs and let its stores become fusty in the face of increasing competition from the likes of Walmart and Target.(Seattle Times)
2. Panasonic is hardly the first company to try to change a product’s image, though most marketing makeovers are aimed in the other direction — turning old and fusty into young and hip.(New York Times)
3. John Fairchild, the witty and irascible publisher and editor who transformed his family’s fusty trade publication, Women’s Wear Daily, into the lively bible of the fashion industry, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.(New York Times)
4. To young Japanese, pachinko is a bit naff, something your fusty old uncle wastes his time with.(TheEconomist)
5.His 577-page book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, an unexpected bestseller, the normally fusty world of was economics' answer to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.(The Guardian)
6. George Osborne is hoping the slick former Goldman Sachs banker will shake up the fusty corridors of Threadneedle Street, fix the fragile banking system and put a rocket under the recovery.(The Guardian)
7. Keith McLoughlin, chief executive of the Swedish company since 2011, wants to shake off the fusty image of cookers, fridges, vacuum cleaners and washing machines to draw in consumers and increase profits.(Reuters)
8. His stratospheric career is built on a mastery of canny negotiation – and the man from Massachusetts was never going to be outwitted by a bunch of backbench MPs in a fusty Westminster committee room.(The Guardian)
9.There is that name for one thing — both ancient and fusty with the bonus of being hard to pronounce.(New York Times)
10. The scene grounds Minnelli’s portrayal of family, home and roots; while this may sound like fusty conservatism, “Meet Me in St. Louis,” resplendent in velvety Technicolor, is a beautiful humane work about belonging.(New York Times)
11. The fusty confines of London’s high court get the Hollywood treatment this week when it considers a blockbuster libel action and hears evidence from major movie stars.(The Guardian)
12. With most of us quarantined in our homes, chances are you’ve been reacquainting yourself with the forgotten spices and fusty beans from the depths of your pantry.(New York Times)
词汇搭配
fusty people, place, thing, image | become fusty
词汇家族
fustily, fustiness
词汇来源
"stale-smelling," late 14c., from French fusté "fusty, tasting of the cask," from Old French fuste, fuist "wine cask," originally "stick, stave, wood" (Modern French fût), from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood" (see fustigate). Related: Fustiness. Fustilugs was 17c. slang for "a woman of gross or corpulent habit" [OED], later generally in dialect for a big-boned person.
近义词
fetid, foul, frowsty [chiefly British], frowsy (or frowzy), funky, malodorous, musty, noisome, rank, reeking, reeky, ripe, smelly, stenchy, stinking
反义词
ambrosial, aromatic, fragrant, perfumed, redolent, savory (also savoury), scented, sweet
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