名詞 prude:

1. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
   同義詞：puritan

1. Don't be such a prude you can carry modesty too far!
   別那麼拘謹(jǐn)－－你謙虛得太過(guò)分了。
2. She was such a prude that she was even embarrassed by the sight of naked children.
   她正經(jīng)得出了格，甚至見(jiàn)了赤身露體的孩子也難為情。

prude

n.（名詞）
One who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous.
過(guò)分正經(jīng)的人：一個(gè)過(guò)分關(guān)心自己是否是或顯得得體、謙遜或正確的人

來(lái)源：
French
法語(yǔ)
short for prude femme [virtuous woman]
prude femme的簡(jiǎn)寫 [品質(zhì)優(yōu)秀的婦女]
Old French prude [feminine of] prud [virtuous] * see proud
古法語(yǔ) prude [] prud的陰性詞 [品質(zhì)優(yōu)秀的] *參見(jiàn) proud
French femme [woman] from Latin fômina * see feminine
法語(yǔ) femme [女人] 源自 拉丁語(yǔ) fômina *參見(jiàn) feminine

<注釋>Being a prude has never been widely considered a good thing,but if we dig further into the history of the wordprude, we will find that it had a noble past.The change for the worse took place in French.Frenchprude first had a good sense, .wise woman,. but apparentlya woman could be too wise or, in the eyes of some,too observant of decorum and propriety,and soprude took on the sense in French that was brought into English along with the word, first recorded in 704.The French word first meant .wise woman.becauseprude was a shortened form of prude femme (earlier in Old Frenchprode femme ), a word that was modeled on earlierpreudomme, .a man of experience and integrity.. The second part of this word is, of course,homme, .man.. Old Frenchprod, meaning .wise, prudent,. is from Vulgar Latin prôdis with the same sense. Prôdis in turn comes from Late Latin prôde, .advantageous,. derived from the verbprodesse, .to be good.. We can see that the history ofprude is filled with usefulness, profit, wisdom, and integrity, but in spite of all this,things did not turn out that well.
人們從來(lái)沒(méi)有普遍地認(rèn)為做一個(gè)拘守禮儀的人是一件好事，但是如果我們深挖prude 這個(gè)詞的歷史， 我們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)詞有一個(gè)體面的過(guò)去。這個(gè)詞變成貶義是在法語(yǔ)中發(fā)生的。法語(yǔ)詞prude 開(kāi)始時(shí)是褒義的，意為.明智或聰明的女人，. 但是很顯然，女人可能會(huì)過(guò)于聰明或者在某些人的眼里，對(duì)儀表和行為的得體過(guò)分注重，這樣法語(yǔ)詞prude 就有了這個(gè)和詞一起被引入英語(yǔ)的意思， 并最早記載于704年。這個(gè)法語(yǔ)詞開(kāi)始時(shí)的意思之所以是.聰明的女人.，因?yàn)?strong>prude 是 prudefemme 的縮寫形式 （更早的時(shí)候在古法語(yǔ)中為prodefemme )， 這個(gè)詞模仿更早的一個(gè)詞preudomme .一個(gè)富有經(jīng)驗(yàn)而又正直的男人.而來(lái)。 這個(gè)詞的第二部分當(dāng)然是意為.男人.的homme。 意思是.聰明，謹(jǐn)慎.的古法語(yǔ)prod 由一個(gè)相同意思的俗拉丁詞 prodis 而來(lái)。 Prodis 從后期拉丁語(yǔ) prode 演變而來(lái)，意為.有利的.， 該詞又從意思為.從善.的動(dòng)詞prudesse 衍生而來(lái)。 我們現(xiàn)在明白prude 的歷史充滿了有利、利益、智慧或忠誠(chéng)的意思， 但盡管如此，事情并沒(méi)有變得那么好