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　

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

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。

verb

adj

He can be without fun, prim ground to follow mom to go on even blacktop only.
他只能毫无乐趣、规规矩矩地跟着妈妈走在平坦的柏油路上。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Terry: She's so prim and stiff, like a bookcase.
她太呆板，僵硬了，像个书架。
Chicago family had as their guest a prim old maid from a small town in the East.
一个东部小镇上的老处女来到芝加哥一户人家作客。
She had a very prim voice.
她说话的嗓音非常拘谨。
The little girl from the convent was in her prim white dress, with her small submissive face.
那个从修道院来的小姑娘穿着整洁的白外衣，一张温驯的小脸蛋。
NEW YORK-The women in the faded black-and-white photograph wear prim, full-length skirts and high collars.
褪色黑白相片里面的几位女子穿著端庄的及地长裙和高领上衣。