The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

一个酒徒色鬼竟然摇身一变道学生。

Not a prig. Just a man thrust into something he never wanted or envisaged.

那倒没有。你不过是对你强加于你的事有些抵触罢。

There seemed, indeed, no more to say, and presently the four resumed their journey; but Edmund was saying to himself, " I'll pay you all out for this, you pack of stuck-up, selfsatisfied prigs."

的确，也没什么可说的。不一会儿，这四个孩子又继续上路，只有爱德蒙暗暗自语，“回头我要向你们算清这笔账，你们这批自高自大、自鸣得意的讨厌鬼。”

It put their visitor in the position of a prig.

它使他们的访客处于自负的位置。

" Oh, tallish, dark, clever — talks well — rather a prig, I think" .

“哦，身材高大，肤黝黑，聪明——能说会道——我觉得是个自命不凡的人”。

" Then I'm not a 'goody girl, ' for I don't like prigs. I want a gentleman in the best sense of the word, and I can wait, for I've seen one, and know there are more in the world" .

“那么我不是‘乖乖女’， 因为我不喜欢自负。我想要一个最好意义上的绅士， 我可以等待， 因为我见过一个， 并且知道还有更多世界” 。

This servant, for instance, will go and meet M. Valenod there, and the haughty prig will not be a bit offended at hearing himself addressed by Saint-Jean in that familiar way, and will answer him in the same way.

例如，这个仆人会去见瓦勒诺生，而傲慢的自负者听到圣让以那种熟悉的方式称呼自己，不会有一点生气，并会以同样的方式回答他。

Mr. Irwine was deeply interested. He said to himself, " He must be a miserable prig who would act the pedagogue here: one might as well go and lecture the trees for growing in their own shape" .

欧生对此很感兴趣。他自言自语道：“在这里当老师，他一定是个可怜的自命不凡的人：还不如去教训树木，让它们长自己的样子”。

Dear me! thought I, how apt history is to reverse contemporary judgments. Surely only the worst of them were as bad as that. But I must admit that they were mostly prigs, and that they were commercial.

亲爱的我！我想，历史是多么容易扭转当代的判断。当然，只有他们中最糟糕的人才会像那样糟糕。但我必须承认，它们大多是一本正经的，而且它们是商业性的。

As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.

至于邻居的生活，如果一个人想装模作样或当清教徒，可以炫耀自己的道德观点，但这些事与自己无关。

A person who is unwilling or unable to understand or judge, and is narrowly and self-consciously engrossed in his own mental or spiritual attainments is a blind prig.

一个不愿意或不能理解或判断， 狭隘地和自觉地专注于自己的精神或精神的人是一个盲目的自负者。

If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means.

要是我有时间，而且不怕路过的一个什么讨厌仆人的注意，我真想知道这是什么意思。

If she doesn't answer them, she looks like a prig?

如果不回答 又显得耍大牌？

It marks a class." " There is correct English: that is not slang." " I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.

它标志着一个班级。“有正确的英语：那不是俚语。”“我恳求你的原谅：正确的英语是写历史和散的 prigs 的俚语。

One after another she creates her fools, her prigs, her worldlings, her Mr. Collinses, her Sir Walter Elliotts, her Mrs. Bennets.

她一个又一个地创造她的傻瓜、她的自以为是、她的世俗之徒、她的柯林斯生、她的沃尔特·艾略特爵士、她的班尼特夫人。

" Yes, mother, the opinions they are paid for. But a prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions" .

“是的，妈妈，他们的意见是要付钱的。但是一个自命不凡的人总是把他的意见作为礼物送给你” 。

" I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets" .

“请原谅：正确的英语是写历史和散的一本正经的俚语。最强烈的俚语是诗人的俚语” 。

" I never can make out what you mean by a prig, " said Rosamond.

“我永远搞不懂你所说的一本正经是什么意思，”罗莎蒙德说。