prudery

常见例句

双语例句

• A woman of artifice and prudery.
  善使诡计而又故作正经的女性。
• 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。
• 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。

权威例句

• Not that Mr Gay defends the contemporary notion of Victorian values: censorious prudery or embarrassed euphemisms.
  ECONOMIST: Victorian values revisited
• What is political correctness but Victorian prudery in modern dress?
  ECONOMIST: Who has been lying about whose age?
• So God forbid piety, but long live prudery.
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