You can't tell her that joke─she's much too prim and proper .
你可別跟她講那個笑話,她這個人古板正經(jīng)得要命。
牛津詞典
a prim suit with a high-necked collar
端莊的高領(lǐng)西服
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‘You're not supposed to say that, ’ she said primly.
“你不該講那樣的話?!彼槐菊?jīng)地說。
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We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
我們傾向于把維多利亞時(shí)代的人想象得非常古板、中規(guī)中矩。
...a rather prim British spinster.
一位極為古板的英國老處女
On her blonde wavy hair, the white hat looked nicely prim.
這頂白色的帽子戴在她金色的卷發(fā)上顯得非常雅致。
You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
可別給她講那樣的笑話 -- 她這人過于古板和認(rèn)真.
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Priscilla, you're being altogether too prim and proper.
普麗西拉, 你 真 是一本正經(jīng),一板一眼了.
辭典例句
He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts.
他穿著整潔的外套,領(lǐng)結(jié)緊貼著白色襯衫領(lǐng)口的鈕扣.
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It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
那是奇特的組合——古板嚴(yán)肅的年輕女王和上了年紀(jì) 、 玩世不恭的維新黨成員相組合.
《簡明英漢詞典》
To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim.
我看他有六七十歲了,古板之極.
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Those young ladies are much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.
那幾位年輕的太太太拘謹(jǐn)和正經(jīng),不會喜歡這種粗俗的笑話.
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The Prim Minister made a powerful speech which brought the house down.
首相發(fā)表了強(qiáng)有力的演說,博得了滿堂喝彩.
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Those young ladies are much prim and proper to enjoy a rude joke.
這些年輕的女士們比較拘謹(jǐn),行為中規(guī)中矩,欣賞不了這種粗俗的玩笑.
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Prim algorithm to find shortest path in graph complete source code, has been tested.
普里姆算法尋找最短路徑圖中完整的源代碼, 已經(jīng)過測試.
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They mince and prim.
他們嬌揉造作地整潔打扮.
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May is always prim and proper.
梅總是很端正且很體面.
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He is prim and precise in manner.
他的態(tài)度一本正經(jīng)而嚴(yán)謹(jǐn).
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If I storefront things prim, those women people won't produce interest to these things.
假如我把店面用品都弄整潔, 那些娘兒們就不會對這些用品發(fā)生愛好了.
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Meg is so prim she won't let me speak to him when we pass.
麥格又那么一本正經(jīng),我們對面穿過都不讓我跟他搭腔.
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Don't invite her to the party. She's so prim and proper.
別請她去舞會, 她太古板了.
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They mince and prim and pout.
她們矯揉造作,一本正經(jīng)還撅著嘴.
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With a coordinated skirt, they might seem too prim over matching can be a trap.
搭配一件協(xié)調(diào)的裙子, 似乎過于拘謹(jǐn).
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He wore prim suits with neckties set primly collar buttons of his white shirts.
他身穿古板的套裝,領(lǐng)帶端端正正地頂著白襯衣的領(lǐng)扣.
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She's too prim to enjoy rude jokes!
她太古板,不喜歡聽粗野的笑話!
《簡明英漢詞典》
But for all her modesty and restraint, she was not prim.
當(dāng)時(shí), 她在魚和野生動物管理署的編輯職責(zé)已經(jīng)開始增加.
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She's much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.
她太拘謹(jǐn)和正經(jīng),不會喜歡這種粗俗的笑話.
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Even Mr. Fleagle stopped two or three times to hold back a small prim smile.
就連弗利格爾先生也停頓了兩三次,好抑制他那一絲拘謹(jǐn)?shù)奈⑿?
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"They mince and prim"
"She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
formalpuritanicalovermodestneatproperstuffypreciseprudishstiffstrait-laced