priggish

1. 自命清高的；一本正经的
   If you describe someone as priggish, you think that they are a prig.

1. There was a tiny, priggish, warning voice in my ears which in the tones of Collins told me it was seemly to hold back.
   我耳边响起一种微弱的，一本正经的，象科林斯的声音，警告我最好不要去。
2. In his early 20s, bin Laden worked in the family business; he was a priggish young man who was also studying economics at a university.
   二十来岁的时候，他还是一个在大学里读经济学的本份的年轻人，就在家族企业里工作。
3. A rather priggish young man.
   一个颇有点自命不凡的年轻人。
4. He is a priggish, domineering man.
   他是一个好为人师、唯我独尊的人。
5. And only the most priggish today would argue that financial institutions are obliged to be fluffy.
   而如今也只有最自负的人才会认为金融机构理应施惠余人。
6. They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.
   他们被上帝之子和其他，一本正经忠于上帝的天使们羞辱，他们备受羞辱，痛不欲生。
7. She was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish girl.
   她只是在琢磨，她是不是一个冷酷的、硬心肠的、自命不凡的女孩子。
8. He was a priggish young man who was also studying economics at a university.
   同时在大学学习经济的他是一个自命不凡的年轻人。
9. I'm sick of your priggish little ways!
   我讨厌你那套拘泥古板的处世之道。

adj

1. exaggeratedly proper
   1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

   Synonym:    primprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian