| 释义 |
‖ pudeur|pydœr|
[Fr.; see pudor.]
A sense of shame or embarrassment, esp. in regard to matters of a sexual nature; bashfulness, modesty, constraint.
1937Wyndham Lewis Let. 21 Nov. (1963) 247 And why this strange pudeur? 1959Times 22 Sept. 13/5 The choice of physical type in these figures with their sense of flaunted pudeur..acquires a close affinity with Italian Mannerism. 1961Spectator 17 Feb. 221 There was a deep-seated pudeur, going back to a finely civilised upbringing in a Victorian working-class home. 1962I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xxi. 201 She had in any case, with a sort of pudeur, arranged to be out of London. 1963Guardian 15 June 4/7 Spencer's brother, Gilbert..could have given everyone a closer sense of the man than this editing and institutional pudeur. 1968R. P. Warren Incarnations (1970) 7 The peach has released the bough and at last Makes full confession, its pudeur Has departed. 1976Listener 10 June 737/3 It is hard not to be goaded into guessing identities. Pudeur makes the reader bend over backwards to prevent this happening. |