As well as being considered unsafe or chaotic, swimming was seen as immodest – shocking because it shows too much of the body.
游泳不仅被认为是危险的或混沌的,还被认为是不庄重的——令人震惊,因为它裸露太多。
为女权辩护(下)
The woman is immodest who can let the shadow of such a doubt remain on her husband's mind a moment.
女人是不谦虚的,谁能让这种怀疑的阴影在她丈夫的脑海中停留片刻。
为女权辩护(下)
And I must be allowed to call her a modest woman, before I dismiss this part of the subject, by saying, that till men are more chaste, women will be immodest.
On the contrary, she would have expressed the prettiest surprise and disapprobation if she had heard that another young lady had been detected in that immodest prematureness — indeed, would probably have disbelieved in its possibility.