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Pun: 双关语 More on Webster
In his remarks following taking the oath of office, Ford got off one of the great puns in American political history when, with characteristic modesty, he told the assembled dignitaries, “I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.”

Prudish: 装淑女样子的,过分规矩的 More on Webster
While most of the motels here hunker meekly by the side of the road, each somehow more unexpected than the next, the Grantmoor makes its presence known far in advance with a towering steel sign that rivals even that of Wal-Mart’s. Despite its initial hubris, however, the motel keeps a prudish distance from the road, hiding behind an expansive, heavily divoted and frequently empty parking lot, which the Lodge shares with the Sphinx Temple (a Shriner meeting house) and the Golf Improvement Center Driving Range (self-explanatory). Eventually, though, the Grantmoor’s signature white modernist zigzag pokes through the horizon, a colonial “G” pinned to its top.