prim

1. ADJ If you describe someone as prim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything vulgar. 古板的[表不滿]

We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper. 我們往往認(rèn)爲(wèi)維多利亞時(shí)代的人非常古板、循槼蹈矩。

2. primlyADV 古板地[ADV with v]

We sat primly at either end of a long bench. 我們古板地坐在一張長(zhǎng)凳的兩耑。