prig

音标发音

• 英式音标 [prɪɡ]
• 美式音标 [prɪɡ]
• 国际音标 [priɡ]
• 英式发音
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基本解释

• n.一本正经的人；自命不凡者；道学先生；小偷
• v.偷

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  priggish：一本正经的；自负的；死板的。

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英汉例句

双语例句

• The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
  从自由不羁到一本正经，这样的转变实在是太彻底了。
• He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.
  他们责骂他是一个沾沾自喜、装腔作势的人。
  dict.cn
• He's a prig and I wish he had lost his primary to that tattooed guy who likes me.
  他那么自命不凡，我希望他在本党初选里输给那个喜欢我的满是纹身的家伙。

权威例句

• This Hoover is a tyrant, a liar, and a prig, but he is also, in his impacted way, capable of love.
  NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge
• Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.
  FORBES: Fact And Comment
• Olivier is a fastidious prig and congenital hypochondriac.
  ECONOMIST: New fiction 2

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词组短语

短语

• prig 'gishness 名
• I did resign the prig 我也丢下了我的严谨

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a person who obeys the rules of correct behaviour and considers himself or herself to be morally better than other people

柯林斯英英字典

• If you call someone a prig, you disapprove of them because they behave in a very moral way and disapprove of other people's behaviour as though they are superior.
• &rarranother word for steal
• &rarranother word for thief

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