1N-COUNT 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的人;禁欲者;苦行者 You describe someone as a puritan when they live according to strict moral or religious principles, especially when they disapprove of physical pleasures. 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的人;禁欲者;苦行者 [disapproval]
Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan.
贝科夫已经忘记了马利宁是个清教徒式的人物。
As for the subjects that so enrage puritans, they will continue to form the focus of her work.
2ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n]道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的;清教徒似的;禁欲的;苦行的Puritan attitudes are based on strict moral or religious principles and often involve disapproval of physical pleasures. 道德(或宗教)上极拘谨的;清教徒似的;禁欲的;苦行的 [disapproval]
Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him.
N-COUNT 清教徒 The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who lived in a very strict and religious way. 清教徒
Quotations
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectatorsLord MacaulayHistory of England