| 词汇 | prudishness |
| 释义 | prudishness noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.nəs/ us /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.nəs/(alsoprudery, uk /ˈpruː.dər.i/ us /ˈpruː..dɚ.i/) the quality of being very easily shocked by rude things, especially by anything relating to sex: （对性问题）大惊小怪，迂腐守旧，伪善 the prudishness of Victorian Britain英国维多利亚时代对性问题的审慎 See prude I loved his simplicity and the old-fashioned prudishness that stops him even from spelling out 'hell', which he writes as 'h-l'. During Queen Victoria's reign, the prudishness of the day led to segregated swimming. It may, of course, be pure, old-fashioned prudishness that makes some women insist their men stay outside while they give birth. The phallus could be intended as a way of poking fun at his prudery. There is a parallel between Victorian prudishness and today's judgmental self-righteousness. 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 |
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