prim

英 [prɪm]

美 [prɪm]

adj. 一本正经的; 循规蹈矩的; 古板的; 正式的; 端庄的
v. （使）一本正经; 使整洁

最高级：primmest　过去分词：primmed　现在分词：primming　过去式：primmed　第三人称单数：prims　

BNC.20979 / COCA.19588

牛津词典

adj.

一本正经的；循规蹈矩的；古板的
always behaving in a careful and formal way, and easily shocked by anything that is rude
1. 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。
正式的；端庄的
formal and neat
1. a prim suit with a high-necked collar
  端庄的高领西服

ADJ-GRADED 极拘谨的；一本正经的；古板的
If you describe someone asprim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude.
1. 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。
2. ...a rather prim British spinster.
  一位极为古板的英国老处女
ADJ-GRADED 整洁的；得体的
If you describe something asprim, you mean that it is very neat, tidy, or sensible.
1. On her blonde wavy hair, the white hat looked nicely prim.
  这顶白色的帽子戴在她金色的卷发上显得非常雅致。

verb

adj

That prim declaration was strictly for george's consumption.
那份严肃的声明完全是供乔治一个人看的。
Mine is very prim and straight-laced.
我姑妈是很严肃的。
In a linked object, passes collison events from a child prim containing a collision event to the parent.
在连接的物体中，传递碰撞事件从含有碰撞事件的子物体到父物体。
Chicago family had as their guest a prim old maid from a small town in the East.
一个东部小镇上的老处女来到芝加哥一户人家作客。
It was a strange conjunction-the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
那是奇特的组合&古板严肃的年轻女王和上了年纪、玩世不恭的维新党成员相组合。
Yay for girls who don't try desperately hard to always be prim, proper and pretty.
对于那些不试图努力的不顾一切的女孩，她们总是整洁，正确和漂亮。
Nothing disturbs the smug beliefs of some prim, narrow-minded people.
对一些呆板的，胸襟狭小的人没有事情可以扰乱臭屁的信念。
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。
He is prim and precise in manner.
他的态度一本正经而严谨。
He fails in his designs to become prim minister.
他当首相的企图落空了。