10. the sticks,这里的sticks 是“树林,深林”的意思。
He is a guy in the sticks, how could you expect him to know that?
他住深山老林,他怎么可能知道这事?
stick-thin, 或者 as thin as a stick 骨瘦如柴 I remember her as a stick-thin teenager. 我的记忆里,她是个骨瘦如柴的青少年。
比较:out of the woods脱离深林,意即“脱离危险”。