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单词 Puritan
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puritanPuritan
puritan
pjʊərɪtən
Word forms: plural puritans
1 N-COUNT 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的人;禁欲者;苦行者 You describe someone as a puritan when they live according to strict moral or religious principles, especially when they disapprove of physical pleasures. 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的人;禁欲者;苦行者 [disapproval]
  • Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan.

    贝科夫已经忘记了马利宁是个清教徒式的人物。

  • As for the subjects that so enrage puritans, they will continue to form the focus of her work.

    那些使道学先生们勃然大怒的课题将继续成为她工作的重点。

SYN moralist, fanatic, zealot, prude
2 ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n] 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的;清教徒似的;禁欲的;苦行的 Puritan attitudes are based on strict moral or religious principles and often involve disapproval of physical pleasures. 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的;清教徒似的;禁欲的;苦行的 [disapproval]
  • Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him.

    保罗身上无疑带有清教徒气质。

  • ...puritan self-denial.

    苦行式的克己

SYN strict, austere, puritanical, narrow
Quotations
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators Lord Macaulay History of England
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Puritan
ˈpjʊərɪtən ˈpjʊrɪtən
Word forms: plural Puritans
N-COUNT 清教徒 The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who lived in a very strict and religious way. 清教徒
Quotations
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators Lord Macaulay History of England
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