2RIGHT/PROPERsocially or legally correct and acceptable 合适的;合理的;得体的;正规的;〔法律上〕正确的,可接受的OPP improper
it is proper (for somebody) to do something
I don’t feel that it would be proper for me to give you that information.
我觉得我把那资料给你不合适。
It is only right and proper that an independent inquiry should take place.
唯一正确的做法是进行独立调查。
3[only before noun]British EnglishBrE spokenREAL/NOT FALSE OR ARTIFICIALreal, or of a good and generally acceptedstandard 真正的,像样的SYN American English decent, real
When are you going to settle down and get a proper job?
你什么时候才能安定下来找一份正经的工作?
Try to eat proper meals instead of fast-food takeaways.
尽量吃点像样的饭菜,而不是外卖的快餐。
4[only after noun]EXACT the real or main part of something, not other parts before, after, or near to it 严格意义上的
The friendly chat which comes before the interview proper is intended to relax the candidate.
正式面试之前的友好闲聊是为了放松候选人的心情。
the city centre proper
市中心
5proper to somethingformal
a)OWNbelonging to one particular type of thing 特有的,为…专有的
proper• It's the main road which links Santa Cruz proper and the mountains.• Higher mathskills are not given properattention in schools.• Hence, it is difficult to know when the properconsecutiveitem will appear.• You can't climb a mountain without the properequipment.• We don't have a properguest room, but you can have the sofa in the study.• When are you going to get a proper job?• So, this firm might be able to come up with the properlens.• Ultimately this is a question as to the properlimits of self-determination, as well as turning on the specific lucidity of the individualpatient.• Push him down the properpath.• Accounts by military and civilian air-traffic officialsagreed the commercialairliner had received properpermission to traverse the zone.• We will stop the wantonsale of school playing fields and ensure that sport takes its proper place within the curriculum.• We need to put the books back in their proper place.• Not a menstrual period in the proper sense.• It just wouldn't have been proper to not invite Jeff.• I can't make the repairs without the propertools or materials.• With proper training, most people can learn leadership skills.• But, frankly, she wasn't a woman any more, not a proper woman.• Bill is a very proper young man.
proper name for• Now then, the proper name for it is the Bureaucratic Spatio-Temporal Effect, but we call it Bureauspace for short.• A proper name is no less a proper name for possessing a descriptivecontent.• Other groups of plants require a thoroughrevision before we can be sure of the proper name for the species.
proper job• It hasn't given people proper jobs.• Just because she's never had a proper job.• Now he writes computer software for the NationalBlindLeague but needs a proper job.• Establishproper jobdescriptions for low-levelsupervisors at the plant, and link compensation to performance for frontline supervisors.• It is often the proper job of authorities to issue directives for this purpose.• Other men's wives did proper jobs once the children were off their hands.• I don't have a proper job so I don't earn much money.• It was all something to do with their thinking he didn't have a proper job, so they said.
proper2adverbadvBritish EnglishBrE spoken
1good and proper spokenCOMPLETELYcompletely 完全地,彻底地
We beat 'em good and proper.
我们彻底打败了他们。
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good and proper• Now, eight years after the originalbike was launched, Ducati has addressed the issue good and proper.• Well, they both got it around in 75 and the crowd was on Seve's side good and proper.• We got our revenge on Kel for 1960 good and proper, and no one else was in it.
2.RIGHT/PROPERused by some people to meanproperly, although most people think that this is incorrect 正确地,适当地〔有些人把此词当作properly用,尽管大多数人认为这样用不正确〕