We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.我们倾向于把维多利亚时代的人想象得非常古板、中规中矩。You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .你可别跟她讲那个笑话,她这个人古板正经得要命。She's too prim to enjoy rude ...
Don’t invite her to the party. She’s so prim and proper.别请她去舞会,她太古板了。It was a strange conjunction—the prim serious young Queen and the elderly,cynical Whig.那是奇特的组合——古板严肃的年轻女王和上了年纪、玩世不恭的维新党成员相组合。We tend to imagine that th...
Inequality and poverty breed class conflict.不平等和贫困滋长阶级对抗.There can be no inequality in love. Give and take must balance.爱情是平等的,双方应该互相迁就.I laid before him the inequality of the match.我对他说出这种婚姻是多么不平等....
Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings.栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物.His ideas were quaint and fantastic . She brought him judiciously to earth.他的看法荒廖古怪,她颇有见识地劝他面对现实.Here was an old church, quaint and rambling an...
His fingers curled gently round her wrist...他轻轻地握住她的手腕。I was curled up on the floor in a corner sobbing hysterically.我蜷缩在地上的某个角落,失声痛哭。The smoke from the camp fire curled upwords.烟从营火上缭绕升起.She curled up in a tight ball, w...