prudish

prudish

英 ['pruːdɪʃ]
　　美 ['prudɪʃ]

adj. 裝正經的；過分規矩的

中文詞源：

prudish 大驚小怪的，迂腐的

來自prude,大驚小怪的人，-ish,形容詞後綴。

例句：

1. I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
我並不是假正經的人，但我覺得這些照片非常淫穢。

2. She was sexually not so much chaste as prudish.
她對男女關系與其說是註重貞節,毋寧說是持身謹慎.

3. Perhaps it was too prudish.
我這也許太拘謹瞭.

4. What would have been the point of a lie that makes him out a prudish simpleton?
如果你是撒謊,那隻能使他顯得是個不通人情的傻瓜蛋,這樣的撒謊又有什麼意思?

5. She is sexually not so much chaste as prudish.
她在兩性關系方面不太守節,隻不過是表面正經而已.