英语释义

• exaggeratedly proper;

  "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

英汉例句

• prudish by nature, and coy by nurture, thou a man of polished gentleness had not been seen of the mildest punctuating. (utoyxc)

  天生拘谨，加后天养成的保守，汝乃优雅高贵的体现，从来没有一个人看到过你打断别人说话。

• in real life, however, americans are quite prudish when it comes to using strong language.

  而现实生活中，美国人爆粗口时相当谨慎。

• you may have a taste for more unusual forms of love, and you should not let an outmoded morality or a prudish partner hold you back from new experiences.

  对于那些异乎寻常的爱情模式你有着独特的品味，尽量不要因为那些老旧的道德观或过于古板的另一半而束缚你的对于它们的全新体验。

• no prudish worries inhibited the fathers of the french nation.

  法国的开国之父们没有过分正经的烦恼。

• the victorians were a prudish bunch and they outlawed depiction of nudity for all but the upper class, who they felt had the moral strength to cope with the images.

  维多利亚女皇非常保守，她禁止了所有关于裸体的描写，唯独对上层社会例外，因为他们认为这些人有强烈的道德观念，可以应付得了这些图像。

• and even the prudish standards of the censors are sometimes flexible enough to allow content that might shock children, who are just as impressionable in china as anywhere else.

  而有时保守的审查者也会过于灵活，让一些儿童不宜的内容出现在了荧幕上，这个人群在中国和别处一样，都非常容易受到影响。

• silence dogood was a slightly prudish widow from a rural area, created by a spunky unmarried boston 16-year-old who had never spent a night outside of the city.

  「寂寞的行善者」（silencedogood）这个笔名被解读为居住于农村的某位寡妇，而实际上呢？ 是这个才16岁，尚未结婚，并从没有踏出波士顿一步的年轻人。

• in my lifetime, people have become more prudish in one way.

  现在，人们已经变得更加拘谨。

• you were not too fat, too talkative, or too prudish .

  你不是太胖，太健谈，或过于拘谨。

• no prudish worries inhibited the fathers of the french nation. they misted rodin, and were right to leave him to his instincts.

  法国的开国之父们相信罗丹，他们让他凭直觉去创造：这种决定非常正确；

• i am not being respectable or prudish , but the problem is there, and one must be able to understand and deal with it in a practical manner.

  我并不是假道学、一本正经，但问题在那儿，我们必须能够用实际的方式了解和应对它。

• when obama realised his comment might cause offence to an often prudish american public he pleaded with the journalist to 「cut the president some slack」.

  当奥巴马意识到他的评论可能会冒犯到常常过分拘谨的美国公众时，他恳求记者们「放总统一马」。

• she gave a prudish refusal to enjoy rude jokes.

  她拘谨得听不得粗俗得笑话。

• toward the end, she suddenly comes on to wilson, whereupon he recoils and backs away, exposed, for all his obscene chatter, as the prudish kid that he is.

  到后来，她突然间靠向威尔逊，然后，威尔逊退缩，转向离开，然后他暴露出他可憎的喋喋不休，假装规矩。

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