prim

adj.

1. 一本正经的；循规蹈矩的；古板的
   always behaving in a careful and formal way, and easily shocked by anything that is rude
   1. You can't tell her that joke─she's much too prim and proper .
      你可别跟她讲那个笑话，她这个人古板正经得要命。
2. 正式的；端庄的
   formal and neat
   1. a prim suit with a high-necked collar
      端庄的高领西服

1. ADJ-GRADED 极拘谨的；一本正经的；古板的
   If you describe someone as prim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude.
   1. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
      我们倾向于把维多利亚时代的人想象得非常古板、中规中矩。
   2. ...a rather prim British spinster.
      一位极为古板的英国老处女
2. ADJ-GRADED 整洁的；得体的
   If you describe something as prim, you mean that it is very neat, tidy, or sensible.
   1. On her blonde wavy hair, the white hat looked nicely prim.
      这顶白色的帽子戴在她金色的卷发上显得非常雅致。

1. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper
   我们往往认为维多利亚时代的人们都一本正经，谨言慎行。
2. On her blonde wavy hair, the white hat looked nicely prim.
   这顶白色的帽子戴在她金色的卷发上显得非常雅致。
3. I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
   我会尽量板着面孔，不去闯祸，如果我能做到的话。
4. The little girl from the convent was in her prim white dress, with her small submissive face.
   那个从修道院来的小姑娘穿着整洁的白外衣，一张温驯的小脸蛋。
5. Those young ladies are much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.
   那几位年轻的太太太拘谨和正经，不会喜欢这种粗俗的笑话。
6. To make prim, as in dress or appearance. a neatly kept room
   整洁的使在衣饰和外表方面整洁打扫得很整洁的房间
7. You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
   可别给她讲那样的笑话&她这人过于古板和认真。
8. That prim declaration was strictly for george's consumption.
   那份严肃的声明完全是供乔治一个人看的。
9. He is prim and precise in manner.
   他的态度一本正经而严谨。
10. In a linked object, passes collison events from a child prim containing a collision event to the parent.
    在连接的物体中，传递碰撞事件从含有碰撞事件的子物体到父物体。
11. 17 two prim spinsters are sitting together quietly.
    两个一本正经的老处女安静地坐在一起。
12. NEW YORK-The women in the faded black-and-white photograph wear prim, full-length skirts and high collars.
    褪色黑白相片里面的几位女子穿著端庄的及地长裙和高领上衣。
13. Based on Rough Set Theory Prim Algorithm Promotion
    基于粗糙集理论的Prim算法的推广
14. He fails in his designs to become prim minister.
    他当首相的企图落空了。
15. Chicago family had as their guest a prim old maid from a small town in the East.
    一个东部小镇上的老处女来到芝加哥一户人家作客。
16. Research on minimum spanning tree based on prim algorithm
    基于Prim算法的最小生成树优化研究
17. Nothing disturbs the smug beliefs of some prim, narrow-minded people.
    对一些呆板的，胸襟狭小的人没有事情可以扰乱臭屁的信念。
18. This paper is to make a contrast between Prim and Dijkstra in aspects of algorithm thought and schematic drawing.
    从算法思想、示意图进行分析比较，突出其不同点。
19. Priscilla, you're being altogether too prim and proper.
    普丽西拉，你真是一本正经，一板一眼了。
20. Woman who is domineering, prim or easily shocked.
    专横、古板或大惊小怪的女子。
21. He can be without fun, prim ground to follow mom to go on even blacktop only.
    他只能毫无乐趣、规规矩矩地跟着妈妈走在平坦的柏油路上。
22. Terry: She's so prim and stiff, like a bookcase.
    她太呆板，僵硬了，像个书架。
23. She's rather prim and precise.
    她拘谨严肃，一丝不苟。
24. She had a very prim voice.
    她说话的嗓音非常拘谨。
25. Mine is very prim and straight-laced.
    我姑妈是很严肃的。
26. Yay for girls who don't try desperately hard to always be prim, proper and pretty.
    对于那些不试图努力的不顾一切的女孩，她们总是整洁，正确和漂亮。
27. It is rather like the sitting room of a prim aunt.
    这里更像是一位爱整洁的姑母的起居室。
28. It was a strange conjunction-the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
    那是奇特的组合&古板严肃的年轻女王和上了年纪、玩世不恭的维新党成员相组合。
29. Everyone in the restaurant looked very prim and proper.
    餐厅里每个人都穿得很正式体面。
30. But there is a prim instinct about somebody snapping at your heels, and it doesn't hurt.
    但当你感到有人快要咬到你脚后跟时，你的某种原始本能被会被激发出来，这对你没有坏处。

verb

1. dress primly

   Synonym:    prim upprim out

2. contract one's lips
   1. She primmed her lips after every bite of food

3. assume a prim appearance
   1. They mince and prim

adj

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

   Synonym:    priggishprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian

2. affectedly dainty or refined

   Synonym:    daintymincingniminy-piminytwee