1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 （在性问题上）大惊小怪的，过分正经的；谈性色变的 If you describe someone as prudish, you mean that they are too easily shocked by things relating to sex.

【语用信息】：disapproval

I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.我并不是假正经的人，但我觉得这些照片非常淫秽。prudishness

Older people will have grown up in a time of greater sexual prudishness.年纪稍大的人是在一个性观念更为保守的时代中成长起来的。