prissy
英 [ˈprɪsi]
美 [ˈprɪsi]
adj. 谨小慎微的; 大惊小怪的; 拘泥谨慎的
BNC.37177 / COCA.24749
牛津词典
adj.
- 谨小慎微的；大惊小怪的；拘泥谨慎的
too careful to always behave correctly and appearing easily shocked by rude behaviour, etc.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 大惊小怪的；一本正经的；谨小慎微的
If you say that someone isprissy, you are critical of them because they are very easily shocked by anything rude or bad.- I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。
- I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
英英释义
adj
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
- too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
- so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
- exaggeratedly proper
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
双语例句
- Get that foolish prissy to pack her little duds.
让那个傻女孩百里茜把她的小衣服收拾一下。 - If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like prissy.
要是她还一心去想那些事情，她就会像百里茜那样嚎叫起来了。 - Prissy rolled her eyes as she looked about her.
百里茜转动着两只眼睛向四下里看了看。 - Virtue, until its very recent revival, has sounded old-fashioned or even prissy to our modern ears.
美德，直到最近的复兴运动之前，一直都显得老旧，甚至在当代人耳里变得拘谨又烦人。 - Prissy quickened her gait infinitesimally and Scarlett went back into the house.
百里茜这才稍稍加快了脚步，思嘉也回到屋里来。 - At school I was a prissy kid, too concerned with the way I looked to enjoy sport.
在学校的时候我是一个拘谨的孩子，过分关注自己的形象以至于无法尽情享受体育的乐趣。 - I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。 - So Scarlett sent prissy down to warm up the breakfast hominy and feed him.
这样思嘉只好打发百里茜下楼去热点玉米粥喂他。 - Mr Brown is an interesting man; introspective and with perhaps a touch of prissy self-importance.
布朗先生是一位有趣的人；他时而会反省自己，而且可能带有些许的自负。 - She did recall a few things and she spoke to prissy rapidly, authority in her voice.
只有几件事情她还记得，于是她用一种命令的语气急急对百利子吩咐着。