prissy
英 [ˈprɪsi]
美 [ˈprɪsi]
adj. 谨小慎微的; 大惊小怪的; 拘泥谨慎的
BNC.37177 / COCA.24749
牛津词典
adj.
- 谨小慎微的；大惊小怪的；拘泥谨慎的
too careful to always behave correctly and appearing easily shocked by rude behaviour, etc.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 大惊小怪的；一本正经的；谨小慎微的
If you say that someone isprissy, you are critical of them because they are very easily shocked by anything rude or bad.- I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。
- I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
英英释义
adj
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
- too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
- so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
- exaggeratedly proper
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
双语例句
- After prissy had gone, Scarlett went wearily into the downstairs hall and lit a lamp.
百里茜走了以后，思嘉回到楼下过厅里，点上一盏灯。 - Bought her and her little wench, prissy.
买了她和她的小女儿百里茜。 - I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。 - Get that foolish prissy to pack her little duds.
让那个傻女孩百里茜把她的小衣服收拾一下。 - If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like prissy.
要是她还一心去想那些事情，她就会像百里茜那样嚎叫起来了。 - Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
这时百里茜也抬头看见了她，她正要张嘴叫她。 - Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to scarlett's own uneasiness.
百里茜突然大声嚎叫起来，那声音使思嘉越发不安了。 - If someone had started giving me prissy hand signals as I started to swear last week my rage attack would have got a lot uglier.
如果我开始骂人时，就有人开始给我做谨小慎微的手势，那么我愤怒的攻击言语会糟糕得多。 - Mr Brown is an interesting man; introspective and with perhaps a touch of prissy self-importance.
布朗先生是一位有趣的人；他时而会反省自己，而且可能带有些许的自负。 - Virtue, until its very recent revival, has sounded old-fashioned or even prissy to our modern ears.
美德，直到最近的复兴运动之前，一直都显得老旧，甚至在当代人耳里变得拘谨又烦人。