But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother.

但她并非吃里扒外之人，马上帮他弟弟辩解。

They become a little more irritable, vain, contemptuous, clannish, dismissive, disrespectful -- fearful, above all else.

他们变得更加易怒、虚荣、轻蔑、宗派主义、屑一顾、礼——最可怕是。

They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.

他们一贯是个排外家族，在紧急关头便团结成为一个共同对敌严密，管他们个人彼此之间有什么分歧或隔阂了。