prissy

adj.

1. 谨小慎微的；大惊小怪的；拘泥谨慎的
   too careful to always behave correctly and appearing easily shocked by rude behaviour, etc.

1. ADJ-GRADED 大惊小怪的；一本正经的；谨小慎微的
   If you say that someone is prissy, you are critical of them because they are very easily shocked by anything rude or bad.
   1. I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
      我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。

1. I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
   我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。
2. PRISSY: Oh, Miss Scarlett, he's dead!
   碧西：噢，思嘉小姐，马死了。
3. PRISSY: I'm packing, Miss Scarlett.
   碧西：收拾东西，思嘉小姐。
4. PRISSY: I can't take care of that baby and sick folks too. I've only got two hands.
   碧西：我不能同时照顾病人和孩子，我只有两只手。
5. Prissy rolled her eyes as she looked about her.
   百里茜转动着两只眼睛向四下里看了看。
6. I'll tell prissy to get an extra plate.
   我去多弄一个盘子。
7. I'll take prissy too.
   我想把百里茜也带去。
8. Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
   这时百里茜也抬头看见了她，她正要张嘴叫她。
9. Prissy put down the child and obeyed.
   百里茜放下韦德，照她的吩咐去做了。
10. Flats like these are really cute but with a sexy party dress, they are too prissy.
    像这样的平底鞋是很可爱，但若要拿来配性感的晚宴服的话，就不够大方。
11. So Scarlett sent prissy down to warm up the breakfast hominy and feed him.
    这样思嘉只好打发百里茜下楼去热点玉米粥喂他。
12. Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to scarlett's own uneasiness.
    百里茜突然大声嚎叫起来，那声音使思嘉越发不安了。
13. She did recall a few things and she spoke to prissy rapidly, authority in her voice.
    只有几件事情她还记得，于是她用一种命令的语气急急对百利子吩咐着。
14. Now, the sight of so many buildings and people completed prissy's demoralization.
    此刻，这么多的建筑物和人进一步把她迷惑住了。
15. If it wasn't for Melanie she could take Wade and Prissy and hide in the woods where the Yankees could never find them.
    要不是为了媚兰，她还可以带着韦德和百里茜到树林里去，那里北方佬是怎么也找不到他们的。
16. Virtue, until its very recent revival, has sounded old-fashioned or even prissy to our modern ears.
    美德，直到最近的复兴运动之前，一直都显得老旧，甚至在当代人耳里变得拘谨又烦人。
17. Get that foolish prissy to pack her little duds.
    让那个傻女孩百里茜把她的小衣服收拾一下。
18. She had a prissy way of talking.
    她说起话来总是一本正经的样子。
19. Bought her and her little wench, prissy.
    买了她和她的小女儿百里茜。
20. Hey, prissy pants, don't wet yourself. I'm right here.
    嗨，当心你的裤子，别弄湿了，我在这里。
21. He yelled just as loudly when she held him as when Prissy did.
    她抱着同百里茜抱着一样，他还是那么大声嚎哭。
22. She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
    她直着腰背坐起来，推了百里茜一把，叫她快跑。
23. At school I was a prissy kid, too concerned with the way I looked to enjoy sport.
    在学校的时候我是一个拘谨的孩子，过分关注自己的形象以至于无法尽情享受体育的乐趣。
24. If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like prissy.
    要是她还一心去想那些事情，她就会像百里茜那样嚎叫起来了。
25. Pork, you and prissy crawl under the house and get the pigs out.
    波克，你和百里茜钻到屋基底下把猪赶出来。
26. If someone had started giving me prissy hand signals as I started to swear last week my rage attack would have got a lot uglier.
    如果我开始骂人时，就有人开始给我做谨小慎微的手势，那么我愤怒的攻击言语会糟糕得多。
27. After prissy had gone, Scarlett went wearily into the downstairs hall and lit a lamp.
    百里茜走了以后，思嘉回到楼下过厅里，点上一盏灯。
28. Mr Brown is an interesting man; introspective and with perhaps a touch of prissy self-importance.
    布朗先生是一位有趣的人；他时而会反省自己，而且可能带有些许的自负。
29. In the name of Heaven, Pa, three thousand! And you didn't need to buy Prissy!
    爸爸，我的天，三千哪！再说，你也用不着买百里茜呀！
30. Prissy quickened her gait infinitesimally and Scarlett went back into the house.
    百里茜这才稍稍加快了脚步，思嘉也回到屋里来。

adj

1. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
   1. too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
   2. so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow

   Synonym:    daintyniceovernicesqueamish

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

   Synonym:    priggishprimprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian