puritan

noun

1. 禁欲者；苦行者
   a person who has very strict moral attitudes and who thinks that pleasure is bad
2. 清教徒（属于16和17世纪的英国教会）
   a member of a Protestant group of Christians in England in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to worship God in a simple way

adj.

1. 清教徒的；清教主义的；禁欲的；苦行的
   connected with the Puritans and their beliefs
2. 清教徒的；清教主义的；禁欲的；苦行的
   connected with the Puritans and their beliefs

1. N-COUNT 道德（或宗教）上极拘谨的人；禁欲者；苦行者
   You describe someone as a puritan when they live according to strict moral or religious principles, especially when they disapprove of physical pleasures.
   1. Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan...
      贝科夫已经忘记了马利宁是个清教徒式的人物。
   2. As for the subjects that so enrage puritans, they will continue to form the focus of her work.
      那些使道学先生们勃然大怒的课题将继续成为她工作的重点。
2. ADJ-GRADED 道德（或宗教）上极拘谨的；清教徒似的；禁欲的；苦行的
   Puritan attitudes are based on strict moral or religious principles and often involve disapproval of physical pleasures.
   1. Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him.
      保罗身上无疑带有清教徒气质。
   2. ...puritan self-denial.
      苦行式的克己

1. Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan
   贝科夫已经忘记了马利宁是个清教徒式的人物。
2. As for the subjects that so enrage puritans, they will continue to form the focus of her work.
   那些使道学先生们勃然大怒的课题将继续成为她工作的重点。
3. Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him.
   保罗身上无疑带有清教徒气质。
4. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition.
   我们知道，安灼拉象个斯巴达人和清教徒。
5. Harvard university was named after John Harvard, a Puritan minister who left his books and half of his estate to the college.
   哈佛大学就得名于约翰哈佛，一个将他的所有书籍和半数财产都留给学校的清教徒牧师。
6. For me, though, a major obstacle in my pursuit of pleasure was my ingrained sense of Puritan guilt.
   然而对我来说，追求快乐的主要障碍是我根深蒂固的清教徒罪恶感。
7. A deep sense of righteousness had been implanted in him by his puritan upbringing, which provided the impetus for his keen sense of ambition.
   幼年时禁欲主义的教育在他心中深深地注入了高度的正义感，这为他的雄心壮志提供了推动力。
8. I should love a puritan's face the worse for that copy of your countenance.
   看你那副伪善的样子，我越发讨厌清教徒的脸孔了。
9. As a Puritan, he is strict in moral and religion.
   作为清教徒，他的道德和宗教观念都很严格。
10. Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the new world.
    许多清教徒殖民者在新大陆仍保持他们好争论的脾气。
11. One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churches.
    人们想知道戴恩在清教教堂里听到布道牧师认真解释圣经时会作何感想。
12. Within a century of the first settlements the Puritan disciplines were a good deal relaxed.
    殖民地建立后的一百年内，清教的教规已宽大多了。
13. Puritan Role in the Development of American Education in Colonial Period
    清教在美国殖民地时期教育发展中的作用
14. The Puritan exclusive localism breeded Isolationism.
    清教排他的地方主义是孤立主义滋生的温床；
15. The Puritan belief that Satan dwelt in nature.
    认为撒旦就栖息于大自然之中的清教徒信念。
16. He inherited characteristic Puritan preoccupations with sin, with gilt and with secrecy.
    他继承了清教特有的关于原罪、罪过和隐秘的观念。
17. His dissolute life is inconsistent with his Puritan upbringing.
    他的放荡生活和他的清教徒教养相悖。
18. Puritan women expected to submit to their husbands and to focus on homemaking as their career.
    清教徒妇女期望能顺服自己的丈夫并专注于家务上。
19. The framers of the Constitution embodied some features of Puritan theology in that document, as we shall see.
    美国宪法的架构体现了一些清教徒神学的特征，我们将在以下讨论到。
20. They have also been concerned to establish the existence of a Puritan tradition.
    他们还一直关心树立清教传统。
21. To the Puritan the Bible was in truth the most precious possession that this world affords.
    对一位清教徒来说，《圣经》实在是这世界能提供最宝贵的珍藏。
22. As we saw when we examined the Puritan view of work, since God created the material world, it is good.
    既然神创造了物质世界，我们可以评论清教徒的工作观念是正确的。
23. In the scarlet letter, Hawthorne criticizes that the style of punishment used by the Puritan religion was radical, inhumane, and cold.
    在《红字》中，霍桑批判了清教徒所实施的惩罚，认为是激进的、无人道和残酷的。
24. A woman from a Puritan background.
    一个清教徒家庭出身的女子。
25. He is too much of a Puritan to enjoy dancing.
    他在生活上过于奉行清教徒式的原则，所以不能领略跳舞的乐趣。
26. The school was named for a Puritan religious leader.
    学校的校名以一位清教教会领袖约翰.哈佛的名字命名。
27. Last week we talked about Anne Bradstreet and the role of women in the Puritan colonies.
    上周我们提到了？中的女性角色。今天我想讨论其他一些对美国历史做出贡献的女性。
28. Established by Lloyd-Jones and Iain Murray for the preservation of reformed, Puritan writings.
    由钟马田和穆雷（IainMurray）成立，为了保存改革宗，清教徒的作品。
29. The accident resulted in puritan's war.
    这次事故造成清教徒革命。
30. And yet, they became so notorious for their moral rectitude that the word puritan has become a byword.
    然而，他们却以他们在道德上的正直而恶名昭彰，以至于“清教徒”在当时是个有贬义的绰号。

noun

1. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

   Synonym:    prude

2. someone who adheres to strict religious principles