音标:[prig] ;
n. 一本正经的人, 纨绔子弟
n a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
词型变化:名词复数形式 : prigs
考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
名词100%

prig的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. 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。
  2. 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!
  3. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.一个酒徒色鬼竟然摇身一变就成了道学先生。
  4. 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。
  5. She said, "That Flora tries to take you on the prig again, you tell me-will you?"她说:“要是弗洛拉再带你去偷东西,你就告诉我,知道么?”

经典引文

  • He was no prig, but liked a laugh.

    出自:P. H. Gibbs
  • Isabel is such a prig that she values her chastity more than her brother.

    出自:Guardian
  • Perhaps I'm a prig.., but it'd be too much like taking a salary and not doing any work.

    出自:C. Forbes
【近义词】

Mountain fableThe mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel; And the former called the latter Little Prig. Bun replied, You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I thi

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(268) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

28 The mountain and the squirrel Ralph Waldo Emerson The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel; And the Mountain called the Squirrel 'Little Prig.' Bun replied, You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in toget

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(319) / 评论(0) 分类 希望长着翅膀
学英语单词
accustomize
advanced intelligent network
aigret
ammoniated tincture
array detector
audiologists
ball-peen
battles of kerbala
bit stock
black cyanide
Bungay
cellis
cellophane of quarter wave plate
childlessness
codepages
college of business administration
conglomerata
coolly
correlation counting method
courtiers
cultural organization marketing
datagraphic output writer
deck lashing container lock
decomino
defeature
definitional occurrence
dimson
efficiency step-up formula
Endorf
fermentitious
fertility distribution
file a claim
fishing harbor (harbour)
gate diversion works
ghaghara
glaived
go through someone's hands
hedging against
hoary peas
HT character
hydrocarbon sulfones
hydrophone calibration apparatus
i-wede
indigirkas
itemized account
keppen
knuckle four
left-half margin stop
liefde
lignified
linear weighted model
Little Buffalo R.
matched bearings
Mesogonimus
metanoeus formosanus
mineral concentrate
mississaugas
mole-bank
Molsheim
monk-fish
morning star
murdrier
myocardial injury
North Hd.
old country
ordering effect
overdelicately
plate scale
problem-behavior graph
program copyright
protoJupiter
quick grass
rancidify
relational access method
relaxing machine
retroolivary area
rhombic transformer
run into a fix
sand-blower
saturated norm
serial-to-parallel
silk doubling frame
spreader lift
ST tube
standard molar heat of combustion
stylocheilus striatus
SUC-DGC
suturae ethmoideomaxillaris
text us
theory formation
Thibet
three-part canon
transistor megaphone
trippings
truck farming
trumpet-shapeds
tube envelope
villepreux
water-bearing formation
wearisomely
windsurfer
Zed-Zed