He had grown staid and dull.

他变得既古板又无趣。

Until this decade, he shuddered at words like "dear", "honey" and "love", finding them bourgeois and vapidly unrealistic.

近，对于"dear","honey"and"love"这些爱称，他仍会觉得浑身不自在，认为这些词语过于小、无趣且不合实际。