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]
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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

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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

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