prudery

常见例句

雙語例句

• A woman of artifice and prudery.
  善使詭計而又故作正經的女性。
• We think of it as a time of buttoned-up prudery and repression —and it was —but loosen the corset of 1860s England and out spills the kink.
  大家的印象中，那是一個沉默的假道學和壓抑的時代——是的——但松開19世紀60年代英格蘭的塑身衣，蹦出來的是變態。
• Joe wondered whether their prudery would ruin things, or add even more hilarity.
  喬懷疑了無論他們的裝槼矩將會燬滅事物或增加甚至更多的歡閙心情。

權威例句

• Not that Mr Gay defends the contemporary notion of Victorian values: censorious prudery or embarrassed euphemisms.
  ECONOMIST: Victorian values revisited
• What is political correctness but Victorian prudery in modern dress?
  ECONOMIST: Who has been lying about whose age?
• So God forbid piety, but long live prudery.
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