prissy

[美國]/'prɪsɪ/
[英國]/'prɪsi/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

adj. 爲小事掛慮的;謹小慎微的;神經質的

例句

a prissy and emotionless creature

謹慎、冷漠的傀儡

a middle-class family with two prissy children.

有兩個嬌氣孩子的中產階層家庭。

PRISSY:And a fine baby boy and Miss Scarlett and me, we brung him.

碧西:一個健康的男孩,由斯佳麗小姐和我一起接生的。

She is known for being prissy about her appearance.

她以對外表挑剔而聞名。

He always acts prissy when it comes to cleaning.

他在清潔方面總是表現得很講究。

Don't be so prissy, just get your hands dirty and help out!

別那麼挑剔,快動手幫忙!

The prissy cat refused to eat anything but fresh fish.

這隻挑剔的貓只喫新鮮的魚。

She has a prissy attitude towards people who don't meet her standards.

她對不符合她標準的人有一種挑剔的態度。

He's too prissy to go camping with us.

他太挑剔了,不願和我們一起去露營。

The prissy customer complained about every little detail of the meal.

那位挑剔的顧客對餐點的每一個細節都進行了抱怨。

She's so prissy that she won't even wear sneakers with her dress.

她太挑剔了,甚至不會在裙子上穿運動鞋。

The prissy boss always expects perfection from his employees.

那位挑剔的老闆總是期望員工做到完美。

Stop being so prissy and just enjoy the messy fun!

別那麼挑剔,盡情享受這場混亂的樂趣吧!

原聲例句

Prissy put down the child and obeyed.

百里茜放下韋德,照她的吩咐去做了。

來源: Gone with the Wind

There is a consensus on this that that extra comma is pedantic and prissy.

大家一致認爲,那個額外的逗號既迂腐又過分。

來源: Dad teaches you grammar.

Your children will probably be soft, prissy creatures, as the children of hard-bitten characters usually are.

你的孩子們也許會是些喫不了苦,缺乏男子漢AE?慨的人,因爲一般喫過苦的人的子女往往是這樣。

來源: Gone with the Wind

Not really, unless you were acting all prissy and demanding.

沒有啦 除非你當時特別神經質又要求太多。

來源: 2 Broke Girls Season 1

No, I agree. I mean, Howard always was a prissy mama's boy.

好吧 我也覺得霍華德是個沒斷奶的小屁孩。

來源: The movie of Qiu Qiu.

I don't care if I said some other girl's name, you prissy old twit!

就算我說錯名字又怎樣 你這大驚小怪的笨蛋!

來源: Friends Season 5

I-I-I don't care if I said some other girl'sname you prissy, old twit!

我是說錯名字!有什麼大不了的! 你這個老頑固!

來源: Friends Season 05

'Cause I'd get a real kick out of watching a prissy little whack job like you lying in your own filth. Know what I mean?

因爲我就愛看你們這些瘋婆子躺在自己的屎尿堆裏。明白了?

來源: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 2

It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.

用粗略類比的時候很可能會犯粗心大意的毛病,但如若不用這種方法,就得執着於細節精確,把寫作的樂趣完全剝離。

來源: Stephen King on Writing

Any time she wanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining, far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved of her.

她什麼時候想大宴賓客,就可以發出邀請,這些客人和那些反對她的思想僵化的老糊塗相比,心情愉快得多,衣服也漂亮得多。

來源: Gone with the Wind

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