The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

一个酒徒色鬼竟然摇身一变就成了道学先生。

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

那倒没有。你不过对你强加于你的事有些抵触罢了。

" Don't be a prig, " said her Uncle Arthur.

“别自以为， ” 她的亚瑟叔叔说。

Perhaps it's only because I'm a conceited prig.

这只因为我一个自负的自负者。

It put their visitor in the position of a prig.

它使他们的访客处于自负的位置。

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

如果不回答 又显得耍大牌？

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

“哦，身材大，皮肤黝黑，聪明——能说会道——我觉得个自命不凡的人”。

" 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什么意思，”罗莎蒙德说。

A prig is a person who is narrowly or self-consciously engrossed in his own mental or spiritual attainments.

一本正经隘地或自觉地专注于自己的精神或精神成就的人。

" You've been a prig in life; a prig you'll die" .

“你在生活中一个自负的人； 你会死的自负” 。

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.

如果我有时间，而不生怕一个自命不凡的仆人路过，我就会知道这一切意味着什么。

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

“的，妈妈，他们的意见要付钱的。但一个自命不凡的人总把他的意见作为礼物送给你” 。

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， 隘地和自觉地专注于自己的精神或精神成就的人一个盲目的自负者。

" 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：正确的英语写历史和散文的一本正经的俚语。最强烈的俚语诗人的俚语” 。

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，如果一个人想成为一个自命不凡的人或一个清教徒，一个人可以炫耀自己对他们的道德观点，但他们不应该关心。

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" .

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

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先生，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。

" 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" .

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

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，它们大多一本正经的，而且它们商业性的。