prim
adj. 循規蹈矩的; 整潔的; (人)一本正經
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.
我們傾向於把維多利亞時代的人想象得非常古板、中規中矩。
...a rather prim British spinster.
一位極為古板的英國老處女
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.
這頂白色的帽子戴在她金色的捲髮上顯得非常雅緻。
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.
可別給她講那樣的笑話 -- 她這人過於古板和認真.
Priscilla, you're being altogether too prim and proper.
普麗西拉, 你 真 是一本正經,一板一眼了.
He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts.
他穿著整潔的外套,領結緊貼著白色襯衫領口的鈕釦.
It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
那是奇特的組合——古板嚴肅的年輕女王和上了年紀 、 玩世不恭的維新黨成員相組合.
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.