prig
英 [prɪɡ]
美 [prɪɡ]
n. 自命清高的人
BNC.28223 / COCA.36294
牛津词典
noun
- 自命清高的人
a person who behaves in a morally correct way and who shows that they disapprove of what other people do
柯林斯词典
- 道学先生；一本正经的人
If you call someone aprig, you disapprove of them because they behave in a very moral way and disapprove of other people's behaviour as though they are superior.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.
他们责骂他是一个沾沾自喜、装腔作势的人。 - Resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged. he was a man of poor physique, naturally timid and a prig.
像稻草人一样瘦弱而且衣衫褴褛。他体格瘦弱，天生腼腆，为人拘谨。 - He was a man of poor physique, naturally timid and a prig.
他体格瘦弱，天生腼腆，为人拘谨。 - 'What a pity it is he isn't a prig!'
真可惜，他不是搞我们这行的。 - What a pity he ain't a prig.
真可惜，他不是个三只手。 - A prig would have said that he had lost culture, and a prude that he had become coarse.
道学先生会说他没有教养，假装正经的人会说他举止粗野。这就是他在泰波塞斯同大自然的儿女们住在一起而受到熏陶感染的结果。 - Betjeman loathed his tutor, CS Lewis, and Lewis, as his diaries reveal, loathed Betjeman: I wish I could get rid of the idle prig
贝哲曼非常厌恶自己的导师C.S.刘易斯，而刘易斯也讨厌贝哲曼，如他的日记所言：真希望能够摆脱这个游手好闲的纨绔子弟 - If one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them.
一个人要是愿意当道学先生或清教徒，当然可以炫耀自己的伦理观点。 - Charles thinks he's better than the rest of us, the self-righteous prig!
查尔斯认为他比我们大家都强，真是个自以为是的家伙！ - You are neither a prig nor a bounder.
你既不是道学先生又不鲁莽。