priggish
英 [ˈprɪɡɪʃ]
美 [ˈprɪɡɪʃ]
adj. 自命清高的; 一本正经的
BNC.35917 / COCA.41613
柯林斯词典
- 自命清高的;一本正经的
If you describe someone aspriggish, you think that they are a prig.
英英释义
adj
- exaggeratedly proper
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
双语例句
- And only the most priggish today would argue that financial institutions are obliged to be fluffy.
而如今也只有最自负的人才会认为金融机构理应施惠余人。 - She was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish girl.
她只是在琢磨,她是不是一个冷酷的、硬心肠的、自命不凡的女孩子。 - In his early 20s, bin Laden worked in the family business; he was a priggish young man who was also studying economics at a university.
二十来岁的时候,他还是一个在大学里读经济学的本份的年轻人,就在家族企业里工作。 - I'm sick of your priggish little ways!
我讨厌你那套拘泥古板的处世之道。 - He is a priggish, domineering man.
他是一个好为人师、唯我独尊的人。 - They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.
他们被上帝之子和其他,一本正经忠于上帝的天使们羞辱,他们备受羞辱,痛不欲生。 - A rather priggish young man.
一个颇有点自命不凡的年轻人。 - There was a tiny, priggish, warning voice in my ears which in the tones of Collins told me it was seemly to hold back.
我耳边响起一种微弱的,一本正经的,象科林斯的声音,警告我最好不要去。 - He was a priggish young man who was also studying economics at a university.
同时在大学学习经济的他是一个自命不凡的年轻人。