Tā de gōngzuò fāngshì hěn kèbǎn, bú yuànyì chángshì xīn fāngfǎ.
His way of working is very rigid; he is unwilling to try new methods.
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history
The literal meaning is 'to engrave printing blocks', a fixed, unchangeable carved page. The figurative sense ('rigid, unchanging') comes from that: once carved, the block can't be altered.
usage
刻板印象 (kèbǎn yìnxiàng) is the standard Chinese for 'stereotype', a frequent collocation worth remembering as a unit.
