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单词 puritan
释义
puritanpu‧ri‧tan /ˈpjʊərətən $ ˈpjʊr-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINPuritan
Origin:
1500-1600 Late Latin puritas ‘purity’, from Latin purus; PURE
Examples
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  • He remained a Scandinavian puritan, less humourous than Bergman, certainly more covert about sexuality generally.
  • He was neither a hypocrite nor a puritan.
  • It might be heresy to say this in a modern world, but the Profitboss is a puritan.
  • Of course I was not - at least I told myself I was not - a puritan.
  • She's hardly the type for an old puritan like you, Karelius.
  • The playboy and the puritan made an odd couple, but they could use each other.
1someone with strict moral views who thinks that pleasure is unnecessary and wrong2Puritan a member of a Protestant religious group in the 16th and 17th centuries, who wanted to make religion simplerpuritan adjective:  the Puritan work ethic
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