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。
We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
我们往往认为维多利亚时代的人非常古板、循规蹈矩。
May is always prim and proper.
梅总是很端正且很体面。
She's much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.
她太拘谨和正经，不会喜欢这种粗俗的笑话。
Those young ladies are much too prim and proper to enjoy such a rude joke.
这些年轻的女士们比较拘谨，行为中规中矩，欣赏不了这种粗俗的玩笑。
If Grandfather were here, she thought, he would say that it was all my governess's fault for raising me to be so prim and proper!
如果祖父在这儿，她心想，他一定会说都怪我的家庭教师把我培养得太古板了。
If Grandfather were here, she thought, he would say that it was all my governess's fault for raising me to be so prim and proper!
如果祖父在这儿，她心想，他一定会说都怪我的家庭教师把我培养得太古板了。
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