prudery

单词prudery

基本解释

n.: 谈性色变的态度（或行为）；（对性问题的）大惊小怪
网络: 假正经；过分拘谨；假道学

权威解释

• 谈性色变的态度（或行为）；（对性问题的）大惊小怪，假正经:

  the attitude or behaviour of people who seem very easily shocked by things connected with sex

英汉解释

• 过分拘谨;装正经,假正经

同义词

n.stuffinessreservepuritanism

反义词

n.permissiveness

例句

• 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。

• Some feminists even claim that pornography can empower women by loosening them from the shackles of social prudery and restrictions.

  一些女权主义者甚至宣称色情作品可以使她们从社会对女性的束缚和约制的镣铐中挣脱出来，获得应得的权利。

• In some cultures it is not prudery that leads them to discourage men from looking at pornography.

  在有些文化中，导致她们阻止男人接受色情文学并不值得大惊小怪。

• Prudery is a demi-virtue and a demi-vice.

  腼腆拘谨也正是一种善恶参半的性格。