Victorian

英 [vɪk'tɔːriən] 美 [vɪk'tɔːriən]

• adj. 维多利亚女王时代的
• n. 维多利亚女王时代的人

英英释义

Noun:

1. a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

Adjective:

1. of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled;

   "Victorian morals"
   

2. exaggeratedly proper;

   "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
   

3. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Florence Nightingale was a famous Victorian.
   弗洛沦斯南丁格尔是维多利亚女王时代的著名人物。
2. Her large,Victorian house is her pride and joy.
   她那幢很大，建造于维多利亚女王时代的房子是她的骄傲。

用作名词 (n.)

1. Her large,Victorian house is her pride and joy.
   她那幢很大，建造于维多利亚女王时代的房子是她的骄傲。
2. Florence Nightingale was a famous Victorian.
   弗洛沦斯南丁格尔是维多利亚女王时代的著名人物。

经典引文

• An even worse example of what workers described as 'Victorian industrial relations.'

  出自：Time Out

词汇搭配

• mid-victorian 维多利亚朝中期的...

近反义词

【近义词】

• straitlaced 严格的
• square-toed 方头鞋的
• puritanical 极端拘谨的
• straight-laced 古板拘谨的
• prim 规规矩矩的
• priggish 一本正经的
• prissy 谨小慎微的
• tight-laced 带子扣得很紧的...
• strait-laced 固守道德观念的...
• prudish 过分拘谨的
• straightlaced 严格的