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Under Mr Blair, fusty old Britain has become an international exemplar of openness.
在布莱尔先生治下，古板的旧英国成了代表“开放”的国际典范。
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。
But critics complain that they also seek to extend fusty regulations from the era of broadcast television to today's very different technologies.
但是批评家指出他们还要改进那些广播电视时代的旧法条，以（适应）时下已全然不同的新技术。

VatiLeaks, as the scandal came to be known, dragged the fusty institution into the wild WikiLeaks era.
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He gave people brash game shows and imported soaps, sweeping away the fusty piety that had previously dominated the media.
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During its first term, the answers the party came up with involved ditching allusions to fusty traditions and insisting that Britain was a young country.
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(SMELL) not fresh and smelling unpleasant especially because of being left slightly wet
(OLD-FASHIONED) old-fashioned in ideas and beliefs

If you describe something or someone as fusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas.
A fusty place or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant.