prude
prude 英 [pru:d] 美 [prud]
n. 拘守礼仪的人；故做正经的女人
名词复数:prudes
- Use prude to describe someone who is too concerned with being proper or modest. It is a derogatory label affixed most often to girls or women who are not forthcoming romantically––it's not very nice.
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- n. 拘守礼仪的人；故做正经的女人
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1. I want to keep her happy, though, and I feel a prude –and I know she gets disappointed.
我想让她快乐，尽管如此，我感觉自己太古板，我知道她会很失望的。
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2. That Nature is such a prude.
自然真是个老顽固。
- prude (n.) 1704, "woman who affects or upholds modesty in a degree considered excessive," from French prude "excessively prim or demure woman," first recorded in Molière. Perhaps a false back-formation or an ellipsis of preudefemme "a discreet, modest woman," from Old French prodefame "noblewoman, gentlewoman; wife, consort," fem. equivalent of prudhomme "a brave man" (see proud); or perhaps a direct noun use of the French adjective prude "prudish," from Old French prude, prode, preude "good, virtuous, modest," a feminine form of the adjective preux. Also occasionally as an adjective in English 18c.
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