We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.我們傾向于把維多利亞時代的人想象得非常古板、中規(guī)中矩。You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .你可別跟她講那個笑話，她這個人古板正經(jīng)得要命。She's too prim to enjoy rude ...
Don’t invite her to the party. She’s so prim and proper.別請她去舞會，她太古板了。It was a strange conjunction—the prim serious young Queen and the elderly,cynical Whig.那是奇特的組合——古板嚴肅的年輕女王和上了年紀、玩世不恭的維新黨成員相組合。We tend to imagine that th...