prissy

英 [ˈprɪsi]

美 [ˈprɪsi]

adj.  谨小慎微的; 大惊小怪的; 拘泥谨慎的

GRE

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

adj

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
  1. too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
  2. so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
  Synonym:daintyniceovernicesqueamish
• exaggeratedly proper
  1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  Synonym:priggishprimprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian

双语例句

• PRISSY: Oh, Miss Scarlett, he's dead!
  碧西：噢，思嘉小姐，马死了。
• 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 sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
  她直着腰背坐起来，推了百里茜一把，叫她快跑。
• PRISSY: I'm packing, Miss Scarlett.
  碧西：收拾东西，思嘉小姐。
• If someone had started giving me prissy hand signals as I started to swear last week my rage attack would have got a lot uglier.
  如果我开始骂人时，就有人开始给我做谨小慎微的手势，那么我愤怒的攻击言语会糟糕得多。
• Now, the sight of so many buildings and people completed prissy's demoralization.
  此刻，这么多的建筑物和人进一步把她迷惑住了。
• Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to scarlett's own uneasiness.
  百里茜突然大声嚎叫起来，那声音使思嘉越发不安了。
• Pork, you and prissy crawl under the house and get the pigs out.
  波克，你和百里茜钻到屋基底下把猪赶出来。
• 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。