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balmy
adj.（天气）温暖舒适的，温和宜人的[/scode]
音标：/'bɑːmɪ/
英英释义：
Balmy weather is fairly warm and pleasant.
例句：
①It's a balmy evening,the golden time for lovers.
这是一个暖和的夜晚,是恋人们的黄金时光。
②The balmy evening was suddenly piercingly, bitingly cold.
刚才温和宜人的夜晚突然变得寒冷刺骨。
《金融时报》一篇题为 A race to vaccinate the developing world 也出现了这个表达：
这里再补充一个易混的单词：barmy adj.有点疯的；傻头傻脑的；愚蠢的 【If you say that someone or something is barmy, you mean that they are slightly crazy or very foolish.】
举个栗子：
a barmy idea.
一个近乎疯狂的想法
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prim and proper
一本正经[/scode]
英英释义：
very careful about your behaviour and appearance, and easily shocked by what other people do or say.
例句：
①You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .
你可别跟她讲那个笑话，她这个人古板正经得要命。
②We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper .
我们往往认为维多利亚时代的人非常古板、循规蹈矩。
《大西洋月刊》一篇题为 The last of the nice negro girls 也出现了这个表达：
大家注意，这里的‘prim’和“proper”其实是同义词，“prim ”本身表示“极拘谨的；一本正经的；古板的 ”【If you describe someone as prim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude.】
