prim

英 [prɪm]

美 [prɪm]

adj.  一本正经的; 循规蹈矩的; 古板的; 正式的; 端庄的
v.  （使）一本正经; 使整洁

最高级：primmest　过去分词：primmed　现在分词：primming　过去式：primmed　第三人称单数：prims　

GRE

BNC.20979 / COCA.19588

牛津词典

adj.

• 一本正经的；循规蹈矩的；古板的
  always behaving in a careful and formal way, and easily shocked by anything that is rude
  1. You can't tell her that joke─she's much too prim and proper .
     你可别跟她讲那个笑话，她这个人古板正经得要命。
• 正式的；端庄的
  formal and neat
  1. a prim suit with a high-necked collar
     端庄的高领西服

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 极拘谨的；一本正经的；古板的
  If you describe someone asprim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude.
  1. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
     我们倾向于把维多利亚时代的人想象得非常古板、中规中矩。
  2. ...a rather prim British spinster.
     一位极为古板的英国老处女
• ADJ-GRADED 整洁的；得体的
  If you describe something asprim, you mean that it is very neat, tidy, or sensible.
  1. On her blonde wavy hair, the white hat looked nicely prim.
     这顶白色的帽子戴在她金色的卷发上显得非常雅致。

英英释义

verb

• dress primly
  Synonym:prim upprim out
• contract one's lips
  1. She primmed her lips after every bite of food
• assume a prim appearance
  1. They mince and prim

adj

• exaggeratedly proper
  1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  Synonym:priggishprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian
• affectedly dainty or refined
  Synonym:daintymincingniminy-piminytwee

双语例句

• He is prim and precise in manner.
  他的态度一本正经而严谨。
• To make prim, as in dress or appearance. a neatly kept room
  整洁的使在衣饰和外表方面整洁打扫得很整洁的房间
• It is rather like the sitting room of a prim aunt.
  这里更像是一位爱整洁的姑母的起居室。
• It was a strange conjunction-the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
  那是奇特的组合&古板严肃的年轻女王和上了年纪、玩世不恭的维新党成员相组合。
• In a linked object, passes collison events from a child prim containing a collision event to the parent.
  在连接的物体中，传递碰撞事件从含有碰撞事件的子物体到父物体。
• Those young ladies are much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.
  那几位年轻的太太太拘谨和正经，不会喜欢这种粗俗的笑话。
• Everyone in the restaurant looked very prim and proper.
  餐厅里每个人都穿得很正式体面。
• We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper
  我们往往认为维多利亚时代的人们都一本正经，谨言慎行。
• Mine is very prim and straight-laced.
  我姑妈是很严肃的。
• Yay for girls who don't try desperately hard to always be prim, proper and pretty.
  对于那些不试图努力的不顾一切的女孩，她们总是整洁，正确和漂亮。