prim
adj. 循规蹈矩的; 整洁的; (人)一本正经
If you describe someone as prim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude.
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。
...a rather prim British spinster.
一位极为古板的英国老处女
If you describe something as prim, you mean that it is very neat, tidy, or sensible.
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。
1. assume a prim appearance;
2. contract one's lips;
3. dress primly
1. affectedly dainty or refined
2. exaggeratedly proper;
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.
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 wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts.
他穿着整洁的外套,领结紧贴着白色衬衫领口的钮扣.
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.
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.