查询词典 prig

He was something of a prig, though a cranky one; homeopathy, spiritualism and the occult replaced Catholicism as his creed in adult life.

他在14岁时的日记中评论说，对待俄国战俘"必须像对害虫一样"。

This time, the reaction will be temperamental; it merely indicates whether one is a romantic cosmopolitan individual or a conceited, self-satisfying prig.

现在我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者任何一个孕育于自由和奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。

But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes — indeed, they are there now, shining and swimming; and a bead has slipped from the lash and fallen on the flag. If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means. Well, to-night I excuse you; but understand that so long as my visitors stay, I expect you to appear in the drawing-room every evening; it is my wish; don't neglect it.

文中描述简小姐躲在大厅的隐蔽处看着这所大房子的男主人如何跟他的客人交谈，如何招待那些高贵的有地位的Ladies，虽然独立坚强自尊的简此时却内心深处充满自卑，她忍着眼泪告诫自己，她只能这样远远望着自己深爱的男人，看着他宠爱漂亮有地位的小姐，却不能让他了解到自己是多么的爱他。

Betjeman loathed his tutor, CS Lewis, and Lewis, as his diaries reveal, loathed Betjeman: I wish I could get rid of the idle prig ...

而只有结业证书、泰迪熊和怀旧之情的约翰·贝哲曼则是读者最多的牛津诗人。

Everybody will, of course, answer, George Washington; but even at the risk of mortally offending all my American friends, I must say that to me George Washington, although an admirable man in many ways, had yet, unfortunately, like the American Pilgrim Fathers, a little too much of the "moral prig" in him to be really a great man----a really great character like the French Bayard or the English Sir Walter Raleigh and Philip Sydney.

其谁何也？当然，人人齐呼，乔治·华盛顿；然，即或冒险得罪余所有之美国朋友，余亦必曰，依鸿铭之见，乔治·华盛顿，于诸多方面，令人敬佩，然如美国清教徒之父辈者，其人道德，或多或少令人生厌，故概不能成真正之伟人，如法国巴亚德或英国之沃尔特·拉雷爵士及菲利普·锡德尼爵士一般之伟人。

He's a pretty westernised kind of guy.

他是一个非常西化的人。

National spirit is the moral kingpin for a nation to realize common ideal and goal.

一、中华民族精神的基本内涵党的十六大报告指出：在五千多年的发展中，中华民族形成了以爱国主义为核心的团结统一、爱好和平、勤劳勇敢、自强不息的伟大民族精神。