全球胜任力：A fuddy-duddy

　　同学们经常会说，我的爸妈是老古董，我们之间有代沟。所以经常会听见非常“中式”的表达：My parents are old antiques. 但是老古董可以这样表达吗？

　　老古董，是一种比喻的手法。指年老不能干事的人为老古董，亦可用于指人思想守旧顽固不化，还指思想陈旧的人。在英语当中，我们称为：someone is a fuddy-duddy. 我妈妈认为有纹身看起来很傻，而且纹身会伤害皮肤。我可以说我妈妈的这种想法非常old-fashioned, outdated or conventional.

　　People who have got tattoos on the body look silly and they damage the skin as well. I think this notion is very old-fashioned and dull as it’s a normal thing for people to have tattoos.

　　通常我们听到的形容都是old-fashioned或者conventional ，下面我们来看一下fuddy-duddy的用法：

　　fuddy, 形容词，是古板的，爱挑剔的意思。还有一个词是fussy，指爱挑剔的，过分装饰的，大惊小怪的。To be fussy / fuddy about food 对于事物很挑剔。My mum is quite fuddy with the environment of a restaurant, but not fussy with the food in the restaurant.

　　Dud, 可以表示不中用的动词，废品；形容词可以用做：a dud battery 废电池。

　　Fuddy-duddy 是个复合词，这种地道的用法在口语中很常见。

　　-My dad is a bit fuddy-duddy because he still listens to music on a cassette tapes.

　　-The bank has lost many customers over the years, probably due to its fuddy-duddy image.

　　学习英语的方法是背单词、默单词和熟记语法.oh, 这个想法可真是a bit of a fuddy-duddy.

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