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.
過分正經(jīng)的人：一個過分關(guān)心自己是否是或顯得得體、謙遜或正確的人

來源：
French
法語
short for prude femme [virtuous woman]
prude femme的簡寫 [品質(zhì)優(yōu)秀的婦女]
Old French prude [feminine of] prud [virtuous] * see proud
古法語 prude [] prud的陰性詞 [品質(zhì)優(yōu)秀的] *參見 proud
French femme [woman] from Latin fômina * see feminine
法語 femme [女人] 源自 拉丁語 fômina *參見 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.
人們從來沒有普遍地認(rèn)為做一個拘守禮儀的人是一件好事，但是如果我們深挖prude 這個詞的歷史， 我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)這個詞有一個體面的過去。這個詞變成貶義是在法語中發(fā)生的。法語詞prude 開始時是褒義的，意為.明智或聰明的女人，. 但是很顯然，女人可能會過于聰明或者在某些人的眼里，對儀表和行為的得體過分注重，這樣法語詞prude 就有了這個和詞一起被引入英語的意思， 并最早記載于704年。這個法語詞開始時的意思之所以是.聰明的女人.，因為prude 是 prudefemme 的縮寫形式 （更早的時候在古法語中為prodefemme )， 這個詞模仿更早的一個詞preudomme .一個富有經(jīng)驗而又正直的男人.而來。 這個詞的第二部分當(dāng)然是意為.男人.的homme。 意思是.聰明，謹(jǐn)慎.的古法語prod 由一個相同意思的俗拉丁詞 prodis 而來。 Prodis 從后期拉丁語 prode 演變而來，意為.有利的.， 該詞又從意思為.從善.的動詞prudesse 衍生而來。 我們現(xiàn)在明白prude 的歷史充滿了有利、利益、智慧或忠誠的意思， 但盡管如此，事情并沒有變得那么好