crusty

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This time, he turns his attention to an old crusty pipe protruding from the bottom of the wall. He grabs the wheel valve on the pipe and turns it with some effort.
這次，他的注意力集中在牆底部的一條陳舊的帶有硬殼的琯道，他抓住琯道上的輪形閥門，很費力的將閥門扭開。
His drawling, cracker-barrel soliloquies overflow with crusty red-state sentiments that may or may not represent the author's feelings but probably don't violate them terribly.
他那有氣無力樸實無華的個人獨白充滿了紅州人所獨有的執(zhí)拗情感，這種刻畫方式是否代表了作者的切身感受，我們無從知曉，但應(yīng)該不是一時的霛感乍現(xiàn)。
All the more reason, you’d think, for healthy birds to avoid sitting next to someone with crusty red peepers.
再就是，你得想想，對於健康的鳥類來說，它們會避免和暴躁的紅眼病鳥挨得太近。

Because they --one important thing -John Moody was a very crusty, strong-willed man, who wrote a couple books.
因爲他們... 一個很重要的事情...,約翰·穆迪是個剛毅且固執(zhí)己見的人,他寫了幾本書
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At the same time crusty competitors Interstate Bakeries and Sara Lee instigated a price war.
FORBES
Want to see what happens when these crusty old trade groups put their heads together?
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The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
ECONOMIST: Marriage

(HARD LAYER) having a hard outer layer
(EASILY ANNOYED) (especially of older people) complaining and easily annoyed
a young person who does not live in a way that society considers normal, typically with untidy or dirty clothes and hair, and no regular job or permanent home