puritanical
[.pjuəri'tænikəl]
adj.极端拘谨的, 有清教徒特点的
例句与用法:
A colony of Puritans settled in Plymouth.
一群清教徒在普里茅斯定居下来。
As a Puritan, he is strict in moral and religion.
作为清教徒,他的道德和宗教观念都很严格。
He is too much of a puritan to enjoy dancing.
他在生活上过于奉行清教徒式的原则,所以不能领略跳舞的乐趣。
词形变化:
副词: puritanically | 名词: puritanicalness |
a.
道德上严格的; 禁欲的
puritanical[,pjuəri'tænikəl]adj.1.■[P-]清教徒的,清教徒主义的2.■宗教(或道德)上极端拘谨的 [亦作 puritanic /-ik/]
adjective
- (often derogatory)practising or affecting strict religious or moral behaviour
(常贬)(宗教或道德行为)清教徒的;一本正经的;道学先生的
puritanically
adverb
puritanical
形容词 puritanical:
of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
exaggeratedly proper
同义词:priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
morally rigorous and strict
puritanical
■Born in Huntingdon in 1599 to a relatively poor squirearchal family, Cromwell found religious zeal as a Puritan while studying at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
1599年,克伦威尔出生于Huntingdon一个比较穷困的地主家庭。在剑桥的Sidney Sussex 学院学习的时候,克伦威尔感受到了清教徒们的宗教。
■In 1641, Milton standing on side of the Puritan Revolution, began to participate in religious polemics against the feudal dynasty of the pillars of the state religion.
1641年,弥尔顿站在革命的清教徒一边,开始参加宗教论战,反对封建王朝的支柱国教。
■Anne Hutchinson,an English middle-class woman,raised the Puritan reform in the course of her Puritan activities in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s.
17世纪30年代,安妮. 哈钦森(Anne Hutchinson)在参加英属北美马萨诸塞殖民地清教活动中,提出了改革清教的思想主张。
■Detractors call it Wahhabism, after the 18th-century puritan reformer whose family alliance with the Al Sauds laid the foundation for their eventual conquest of Arabia.
18世纪,和AlSauds家族联盟的清教徒改革者征服了阿拉伯,在这里建立基地,之后,那些恶意贬低它的人就称它为瓦哈比教派。
■The company said the Covidien brand will be the master identifier for Tyco Healthcare's brand names, which include Auto suture, Kendall, Mallinckrodt, Nellcor, Puritan Bennett, Syneture and Valleylab.
Covidien继续秉承历史辉煌成为一家世界领先的医疗产品公司,提供诸多享誉世界的Nellcor, Puritan-Bennett, Mallinckrodt, US Surgical, Kendall以及 ValleyLab等旗下产品。
■The youth of 'The Roaring Twenties' abandoned the puritanical ways of the Victorians and started to party again.
“喧嚣的20年代”的年轻人摒弃了维多利亚女王时代的极端拘谨方式,又重新开始享乐。
■"Puritan flowers," he said, "and the type of Puritan maidens,
“清教徒之花,”他说,“是清教徒少女的标志,
■The Scarlet Letter is a love story set against the harsh backdrop of the Puritan colony in 17th century Boston.
《红字》所讲述的爱情故事发生在十七世纪清教徒严酷统治下的殖民地波士顿。
■If one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them.
一个人要是愿意当道学先生或清教徒,当然可以炫耀自己的伦理观点。
■The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
一个抑郁的新英格兰清教徒。
■A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.
一个清教徒可能狂吞他的面包皮屑,正如一个议员大嚼甲鱼。
■one is a puritan, the other a hedonist;
一位是清教徒,另一位是享乐主义;
■A day of fasting is not for me just a puritanical device for denying oneself a pleasure, but rather a way of anticipating a rare moment of supreme indulgence.
一天的禁食对于我来说并非像被剥夺的快乐,而是在期待更多纵情享乐的机会。
■The Pilgrims, a group of Puritanical English separatists who came to North America in 1620, also disapproved of Christmas and as a result it was not a holliday in early America.
一支英国清教徒的分离主义者,在1620年来到了北美洲,也不同意圣诞节,结果是它在早期的美国不是一个假日。
■In contrast, men such as Rockefeller and Ford exhibited puritanical qualities.
与之相反,洛克菲勒和福特表现出的是清教徒的品性。
■Gaye was tormented, too, by his relationship with his puritanical father, Marvin Sr.
与此同时,盖耶内心还受着煎熬,因为他和古板固执的父亲,老马尔文之间的僵局。
■In contrast, such men as John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford demonstrated puritanical qualities. They retained their small-town values and lifestyles.
与此相反,约翰-D-洛克菲勒和亨利-福特等人处处显示清教徒的特点,仍然保持着小城市居民的价值观念和生活方式。
■For Saudi Arabia is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch- conservative, adhering, for the last two centuries, to the puritanical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam.
两个世纪以来,沙特阿拉伯的统治者和被统治者遵循着伊斯兰教瓦哈比教派的教条,极其保守,相互依靠。
■People who are puritanical are often ridiculed for being boring.
严谨的人常被人嘲笑无聊。
■In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a common measure.
为了实现自己的决心,他以罗杰 - 其灵渥斯的名义在这座清教徒城镇中居住下来,他毋须其它介绍,只消他所具备的异乎寻常的学识就成了。
■In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town, as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a common measure.
为了实现自己的决心,他以罗杰·齐灵漫斯的名义在这座清教徒城镇中居住下来,他毋须其它介绍,只消他所具备的异乎寻常的学识就成了。
■This puritanical influence seems still to persist in Anglo-Americans.
人们似乎是把时间当作一个差不多是实实在在地东西来对待。
■They named it after the Puritan minister who willed half his estate and all his books to the college.
他们以一位在遗嘱中将半数产业和所有书籍都捐给这所大学的清教徒牧师来为学校命名。
■They confide in their militantly atheistic friends about their call to the ministry, or tell their pessimistic, puritanical mother that they want to dance, dance, dance!
他们向好斗的、无神论朋友那里坦白自己给对上帝的服务,或告诉他们悲观、严格的母亲自己希望跳舞,跳舞,跳舞!
■Several Puritan women, like Anne Bradstreet, distinguished themselves as writers.
他们必定常享闺房之乐,因为他们把很多的小清教徒带到这世界。
■Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn't approve of dancing.
他们的父母管教颇严格,不赞成跳舞。
■They have also been concerned to establish the existence of a Puritan tradition.
他们还一直关心树立清教传统。
■He is too much of a puritan to enjoy dancing.
他在生活上过于奉行清教徒式的原则,所以不能领略跳舞的乐趣。
■He is a proverbially dour New England Puritan.
他是个众所周知的抑郁的新英格兰清教徒。
■His dissolute life is inconsistent with his puritan upbringing.
他的放荡生活和他的清教徒教养相悖。
■He inherited characteristic Puritan preoccupations with sin, with gilt and with secrecy.
他继承了清教特有的关于原罪、罪过和隐秘的观念。
■The author believes that Franklin was a transitional figure from Puritanism to Enlightenment and that he showed his Puritan inheritance all through his life.
他虽然没有接受清教主义作为他的主流思想,但在他的许多作品中仍然显露出了这一思想影响的痕迹。
■He also wrote parodies that poked fun at Puritan intolerance.
他还经常写一些打油诗来讽刺清教徒的偏激行为。
■On Ephraim Cabot:A Puritan in the Stone
伊弗雷姆·凯勃特:石头上的清教徒
■the proverbially dour New England Puritan;
众所周知的、性格阴沉的新英格兰清教徒;
■The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.
伦敦画报展现了他的一顶高而圆的清教徒帽,一根鸵鸟翎毛凸显了其雍容华贵。
■President Obama is right about the need for more responsibility, but for those of you who have been responsible, this is the time to disregard those puritanical whispers and buy something fun.
但是对那些一贯负责任的人来说,现在无需理会那些清教徒的耳语,去买些有意思的玩意儿吧。
■But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
但是,由于早年清教徒性格严峻,这种推测未免过于武断。
■As a Puritan, he is strict in moral and religion.
作为清教徒,他的道德和宗教观念都很严格。
■What makes the second premise problematic is the use of the Puritan colonies as a basis for comparison.
使第二个前提成问题的,是戴维斯教授将(北方)清教殖民地用作比较的基础。
■Following a regimen of eating less and exercising more seems like the simplest bet.Yet even a puritanical way of life comes loaded with controversy.
依循少吃多运动的养生之道,看来比较像是最简单的对策,然而即使是过著清教徒般的生活,也充满了争议。
■But if there was a Puritan here, he would nod his head at my statement, and he would say, “But you know, it didn't matter, and it doesn't really matter.
假如今天有一位清教徒在坐于我们中间,他会对我所说的点头,然后说:“不过你知道吗?这些对我们不很重要;这些并不很重要。”
■Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings.
像旁的受过清教徒教育的人一样,我惯对自己的罪守,愚妄和失败,作种种的冥想。
■On one hand, it is analyzed that the deep historical culture, based on agricultural society, slavery system and Puritan thoughts, has much influence on Faulkner's delineation of women.
其一,从农业社会,奴隶制和清教思想三个方面入手,分析了在此基础上形成的深厚的历史文化传统对福克纳的女性角色刻画所产生的诸多影响。
■It is rooted historically and culturally in the Puritan idealism and the realistic tradition.
其深层历史文化根源是清教主义的理想主义与现实主义传统。
■Characteristic of a puritan; puritanical.
具有清教徒特点的;清教徒似的
■3 The puritanical purges in civil war are different from the Reformation in affecting the church in the following aspects except_____ 3.
内战期间的请教徒清理和宗教改革影响教堂的不同之处是除了_____以外的选项。
■It still has its puritanical spirit -- hard-working and family-oriented.
即便给我自由过剧中一些男人的生活,我也不见得会作出那个选择。
■Another factor that affected and circumscribed Puritan writing was the conviction that all events, however small, are contrived by God, or else the Devil.
另一个影响和限制新教时期作品的因素是相信事无巨细都是上帝或魔鬼的旨意。
■In other ways the Bible limited Puritan writing, blurring and deadening the pages.
另一方面,圣经又限制了清教时期的作品,使它们显得晦涩沉闷。