Prim
[prɪm]
解释:
(verb.) dress primly.
(verb.) contract one's lips; 'She primmed her lips after every bite of food'.
(verb.) assume a prim appearance; 'They mince and prim'.
编辑:凯利--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The privet.
(a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
(v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
安妮编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. Formal, stiff, precise, starch, starched, strait-laced, in buckram.
校对:马蒂
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious, unbending, priggish
ANT:Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive
校对:凯尔西
解释:
adj. exact and precise in manner: affectedly nice.—v.t. to deck with great nicety: to form with affected preciseness:—pr.p. prim′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. primmed.—adv. Prim′ly.—n. Prim′ness.
休整理
例句:
- As for you, Amy, continued Meg, you are altogether too particular and prim. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Dear me,' said the prim man in the cloth boots, 'it is a very extraordinary circumstance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- His prim seat on horseback struck me altogether as too formidable. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the only one who seemed to be perfectly calm and sober. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- So am I,' responded the prim man, 'because I know it would have afforded so much amusement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- If the Laurences had been what Jo called 'prim and poky', she would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy and awkward. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- You have made Helen prim. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
录入:威廉姆斯