prissy

英 [ˈprɪsi]

美 [ˈprɪsi]

adj.  谨小慎微的; 大惊小怪的; 拘泥谨慎的

GRE

BNC.37177 / COCA.24749

牛津词典

adj.

• 谨小慎微的；大惊小怪的；拘泥谨慎的
  too careful to always behave correctly and appearing easily shocked by rude behaviour, etc.

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 大惊小怪的；一本正经的；谨小慎微的
  If you say that someone isprissy, you are critical of them because they are very easily shocked by anything rude or bad.
  1. I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
     我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。

英英释义

adj

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
  1. too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
  2. so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
  Synonym:daintyniceovernicesqueamish
• exaggeratedly proper
  1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  Synonym:priggishprimprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian

双语例句

• He yelled just as loudly when she held him as when Prissy did.
  她抱着同百里茜抱着一样，他还是那么大声嚎哭。
• Virtue, until its very recent revival, has sounded old-fashioned or even prissy to our modern ears.
  美德，直到最近的复兴运动之前，一直都显得老旧，甚至在当代人耳里变得拘谨又烦人。
• In the name of Heaven, Pa, three thousand! And you didn't need to buy Prissy!
  爸爸，我的天，三千哪！再说，你也用不着买百里茜呀！
• If it wasn't for Melanie she could take Wade and Prissy and hide in the woods where the Yankees could never find them.
  要不是为了媚兰，她还可以带着韦德和百里茜到树林里去，那里北方佬是怎么也找不到他们的。
• Bought her and her little wench, prissy.
  买了她和她的小女儿百里茜。
• Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to scarlett's own uneasiness.
  百里茜突然大声嚎叫起来，那声音使思嘉越发不安了。
• She had a prissy way of talking.
  她说起话来总是一本正经的样子。
• Hey, prissy pants, don't wet yourself. I'm right here.
  嗨，当心你的裤子，别弄湿了，我在这里。
• PRISSY: I can't take care of that baby and sick folks too. I've only got two hands.
  碧西：我不能同时照顾病人和孩子，我只有两只手。
• If someone had started giving me prissy hand signals as I started to swear last week my rage attack would have got a lot uglier.
  如果我开始骂人时，就有人开始给我做谨小慎微的手势，那么我愤怒的攻击言语会糟糕得多。