橘子朗文词典

priggish

P 开头单词SAT词汇

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈprɪɡ.ɪʃ]
  • 美式音标 [ˈprɪɡ.ɪʃ]
  • 国际音标 ['prigiʃ]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj.一本正经的；死板的；严格的

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    prig：一本正经的人；小偷。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Tintin’s slightly priggish character fitted the times.
    丁丁带些自负的性格特征和那个时代很契合。
  • Her favourite female character from fiction was Dorothea, "that priggish lioness from Middlemarch;
    她最喜爱的小说中的女角色是多萝西娅，“来自《米德尔马挈》中的一头自负的雌狮子。”
  • 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。

    • 原声例句

  • 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。
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    • 权威例句

  • Yet the movie is not some conventionally priggish tale of youthful innocence corrupted by riches.
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  • He could be insufferably priggish, but he was not rigid.
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  • Mr Xin imagined priggish 19th-century English censors exclaiming.
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词组短语

    短语

  • faced priggish 一本正经的
  • priggish mentality 好强自负
  • Priggish Pedant 酸秀才
  • humorless nannyish poker -faced priggish 一本正经的

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • like a prig

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you describe someone as priggish, you think that they are a prig.