ADJ If you describe something or someone as fusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas. (思想或态度)守旧的 [表不满]
The fusty old establishment refused to recognize the demand for popular music.
古板、迂腐的当权派拒绝承认对流行乐的需求。
ADJ A fusty place or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant. 霉臭的 [usu ADJ n]
...fusty old carpets.
...霉臭的旧地毯。
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。
This, his third gardening book, is also his first in 25 years, but little here feels fusty or irrelevant. The book was published in Britain in September and is about to come out in America.
这本书9月于英国出版，马上将和美国的读者见面，是福克斯第3本园艺方面的作品，也算25年内的第一本，但是读者不会感到内容陈旧，也不会觉得它无足轻重。
Venerable but not fusty, privileged but not showy, secure its sense of excellence, but not arrogant, Oxford is, in a word, civilized.
古老却不陈腐，尊贵却不卖弄，确信自身的优越却不傲慢，简而言之，牛津是一处为文明所熏陶之地。
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