网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 prudishly
释义 prudishly
adverb
 disapprovinguk /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/ us /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/
in a way that shows you are easily shocked by rude things, especially anything relating to sex: (对性问题)大惊小怪地,迂腐守旧地,伪善地
Victorian writers prudishly avoided this subject.维多利亚时代的作家基于对性问题的审慎,避开了这个话题。
See
prude
Everyone is still having affairs but we seem less prudishly shocked by them.
"Oh no wine, you need a clear head," she tells me prudishly.
The show is prudishly conventional compared to the experimental nature of his past work.
It is said that the Victorians prudishly covered table legs to avoid causing offence.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Narrow-minded
be set in your waysidiom
be wearing blindersidiom
be wearing blinkersidiom
blinker
blinkered
closed-minded
intolerantly
myopia
myopic
myopically
narrow-minded
narrow-mindedly
narrow-mindedness
prissily
prissy
provinciality
provincially
prude
unreconstructed
unthinking
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 3:10:26