prudery
英式音标：[ˈpru:dəri] 
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美式音标：[ˈprudəri] 怎么读
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prudery词义
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n.
拘谨，（尤指对性问题）大惊小怪；
变形
复数：pruderies
英英释义
prudery[ 'pru:dəri ]
n.excessive or affected modesty
同义词：primnessprudishnessGrundyism
prudery用法
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双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The "Eastern"Mark Twain can be delicate to the point of prudery.
“东部的”马克·吐温竟可以严谨到一本正经的程度。
权威例句
PruderyPrudery & Passion
Legal Prudery: The Case of Ulysses
Prudery in the Publication History of Goethe's Roman Elegies
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Mrs Grundy : studies in English prudery
Origins and Legacies of Irish Prudery: Sexuality and Social Control in Modern Ireland
Rescuing Sex from Prudery and Prurience: American Women's Use of Sex Education as an Antidote to Obscenity, 1925-1932
The Terrible Haystack Murder: The Moral Paradox of Hypocrisy, Prudery and Piety in Antebellum America
A dictionary of American and British euphemisms : the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery and deceit
