We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.

我们倾向于把维多利亚时代的人想象得非常古板、中规中矩。

柯林斯例句

You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .

你可别跟她讲那个笑话，她这个人古板正经得要命。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

She's too prim to enjoy rude jokes!

她太古板,不喜欢听粗野的笑话!

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Priscilla, you're being altogether too prim and proper.

普丽西拉, 你 真 是一本正经,一板一眼了.

辞典例句

He is prim and precise in manner.

他的态度一本正经而严谨.

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Meg is so prim she won't let me speak to him when we pass.

麦格又那么一本正经,我们对面穿过都不让我跟他搭腔.

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To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim.

我看他有六七十岁了,古板之极.

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The Prim Minister made a powerful speech which brought the house down.

首相发表了强有力的演说,博得了满堂喝彩.

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Don't invite her to the party. She's so prim and proper.

别请她去舞会, 她太古板了.

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But for all her modesty and restraint, she was not prim.

当时, 她在鱼和野生动物管理署的编辑职责已经开始增加.

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She's much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.

她太拘谨和正经,不会喜欢这种粗俗的笑话.

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They mince and prim.

他们娇揉造作地整洁打扮.

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May is always prim and proper.

梅总是很端正且很体面.

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They mince and prim and pout.

她们矫揉造作,一本正经还撅着嘴.

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You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.

可别给她讲那样的笑话 -- 她这人过于古板和认真.

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