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...
A great chunk of loose kerbing smashed into my left-front wheel, bursting the tyre and denting the rim...我车子的左前轮撞在一大块松动的路缘石上，导致车胎爆裂、轮辋凹陷。Other than blowing up a tyre I hadn't done any car maintenance.除了给轮胎充气外，我没做过任何...