1·She replied with a slight primness, "If you please."
她略带拘谨地回答道：“只要你愿意。”
2·The primness of Indian cinema is at odds with wider society.
印度电影业的拘谨与整个社会环境并不相符。
3·A country which tends towards primness by day is often alcohol-fueled and lustful by night.
这个白天一本正经的国家夜晚通常是酒色糜烂的。
4·When I heard the word "stream" uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel.
我听到有人用一种令人厌恶的拘谨口吻提到“流”，我想到的不是当代小说，而是小便。
5·Robert Audley looked at the rigid primness of the orderly grounds, wondering how George could have grown up in such a place to be the frank, generous, careless friend whom he had known.
罗伯特·奥德利瞧着这秩序井然的土地的僵硬死板的外貌，心中纳罕：乔治在这么一个地方，是怎么长成这么一个他所熟悉的、那么坦白直率、宽宏大量，无忧无虑的朋友的。