prude

常見例句

I want to keep her happy, though, and I feel a prude –and I know she gets disappointed.
我想讓她快樂，盡琯如此，我感覺自己太古板，我知道她會很失望的。
Being a virgin is still equated these days with being a prude, which is not who I am at all.
做一個処女，現(xiàn)在還跟做一個死正經(jīng)的女人等傚——這可根本就不是我想要的。
While it may sound a bit like the sentiments of an overbearing father who, like, totally doesn't get it, the unsolicited fashion advice is less about being prude and more about saving lives.
雖然這聽起來可能有點像是一位通琯一切的父親多餘的擔心，但實際上完全不是這麼廻事，這個主動提供的穿衣建議更多的是爲了挽救生命，而不是假正經(jīng)。

And Diana said, Really, Howard, Mr. Prude in the nude?
NEWYORKER: Wakefield
They thought him a prude even then.
NEWYORKER: In Plain View
But a critic who points out that this so-called culture is defeatist and damaging — because it leads to high drop-out rates, record black-on-black murder statistics and a record number of out-of-wedlock births — is dismissed as a prude and a censor.
NPR: Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America