High time, after 1,000 years of prudery.

在 1000 年的谨慎之后，是时候了。

The children were delighted with the mere word tavern, which our modern prudery denounces with so much gusto.

孩子们对小酒馆这个词感到很高兴，我们现代的正经人非常热衷于谴责它。

For Flaubert, the French bourgeoisie could be a repository of the most extreme prudery, snobbery, smugness, racism and pomposity.

对福楼拜来说，法国资产阶级可能是最极端的拘谨、势利、自鸣得意、种族主义和浮夸的宝库。

His provincial or English prudery went so far as to detect envy in it, though in this he was certainly mistaken.

他的乡土或英国人的拘谨甚至在其中发现了嫉妒，尽管在这一点上他肯定是错误的。

Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids.

曼森·明戈特夫人假装正经地抿起小嘴， 恶狠狠地瞪着他。

To it we owe the characteristic which, in some other countries, is expressed by the term English prudery, the accusation implied being part of the general charge of hypocrisy.

我们归功于它的特征，在其他一些国家，这种特征用英语 prudery 一词来表达，该指控暗示是虚伪的一般指控的一部分。