prudery

英式音标：[ˈpru:dəri]

美式音标：[ˈprudəri]

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概况：

n. 假正经的行为；过分拘谨的言行

词义：

n.

拘谨，（尤指对性问题）大惊小怪；

变形

复数：pruderies

英英释义

prudery[ 'pru:dəri ]

n.excessive or affected modesty

同义词：primnessprudishnessGrundyism

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The "Eastern"Mark Twain can be delicate to the point of prudery.
“东部的”马克·吐温竟可以严谨到一本正经的程度。

权威例句

Prudery

Prudery & Passion

Legal Prudery: The Case of Ulysses

Prudery in the Publication History of Goethe's Roman Elegies

Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America

Mrs Grundy : studies in English prudery

Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland

Rescuing Sex from Prudery and Prurience: American Women's Use of Sex Education as an Antidote to Obscenity, 1925-1932

The Terrible Haystack Murder: The Moral Paradox of Hypocrisy, Prudery and Piety in Antebellum America

A dictionary of American and British euphemisms : the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery and deceit

英语词源：

prudery (n.)

1709, from prude + -ery and in part from French pruderie.

The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. [Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables"]

Some 20c. writers in English used extended form prudibundery, in many cases likely for contemptuous emphasis, from French prudibonderie "prudery."

造句：

1. A woman of artifice and prudery.

善使诡计而又故作正经的女性。

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2. Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

伪道学是一种贪婪，还是贪婪中最坏的贪婪。

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3. Joe wondered whether their prudery would ruin things, or add even more hilarity.

乔怀疑了无论他们的装规矩将会毁灭事物或增加甚至更多的欢闹心情。

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4. 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，那是一个沉默的假道学和压抑的时代——是的——但松开19世纪60年代英格兰的塑身衣，蹦出来的是变态。

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5. 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，那是一个沉默的假道学和压抑的时代——是的——但松开19世纪60年代英格兰的塑身衣，蹦出来的是变态。

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6. 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，那是一个沉默的假道学和压抑的时代——是的——但松开19世纪60年代英格兰的塑身衣，蹦出来的是变态。

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