adj. 维多利亚 (Victoria) 女王(时代、式)的;旧式的。 n. 维多利亚女王时代的人[文学家、名士、文物]。 n. -ism 维多利亚女王时代的风格[风气]。
exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn''t approve of my miniskirts" 同义词:priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced,
例句与用法
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They were dressed up in victorian clothes . 他们化装成维多利亚时代的人。
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Why should we waste time on luxuries like music or victorian poetry ? 为什么要浪费时间去学音乐或维多利亚时期的诗歌等那些华而不实的东西呢?
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When they were together the jacobean and the victorian ages were juxtaposed . 她们俩在一块的时候,仿佛是詹姆士时代和维多利亚时代,杂凑在一起。
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The victorian giants were either dead or dying by the turn of the century . 到十九、二十世纪之交,维多利亚女王时代的巨人或者已死,或者将要死去。
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The victorian habit of mind was unduly preoccupied by what was socially and morally convenient . 维多利亚时代的心理习惯所过度迷恋的是社交和道义的投合。
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Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an authoritarian attitude . 维多利亚时代的父母相信,他们以无理的权威气派为屏障,可以保持自己的威严。
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Of all forms of arrant untruthfulness victorian optimism appears to me to have been the most cowardly and the most damaging . 在一切形式的彻头彻尾的虚假中,在我看来维多利亚时代的乐观主义是最怯弱的也是最有害的。
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His novels bring to life the victorian age 他的小说把维多利亚时代的生活写活了。
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We lived in a victorian red - brick house 我们住在一幢维多利亚式的红砖房里。
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There is a huge victorian edifice in the area 该地区有一幢维多利亚式的庞大建筑物。