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。你不过是对你强加于你事有些抵触罢了。

It put their visitor in the position of a prig.

它使他们访客处于自负位置。

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

如果不回答 又显得耍大牌？

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

“别自以为是， ” 亚瑟叔叔。

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

“哦，身材高大，皮肤黝黑，聪明——能会道——我觉得是个自命不凡人”。

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

“我永远搞不懂你所一本正经是什么意思，”罗莎蒙德。

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

一个又一个地创造了傻瓜、自以为是、世俗之徒、柯林斯先生、沃特·艾略特爵士、班尼特夫人。

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，而且不怕路过一个什么讨厌仆人注意，我真想知道这是什么意思。

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

“你在生活中是一个自负人； 你会死自负” 。

" 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，妈妈，他们意见是要付钱。但是一个自命不凡人总是把他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， 狭隘地和自觉地专注于自己精神或精神成就人是一个盲目自负者。

" 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：正确英语是写历史和散文一本正经俚语。最强烈俚语是诗人俚语” 。

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."

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

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.

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

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。“有正确英语：那不是俚语。”“我恳求你原谅：正确英语是写历史和散文 prigs 俚语。

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.

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

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，他一定是个可怜自命不凡人：还不如去教训树木，让它们长成自己样子”。

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，而傲慢自负者听到圣让以那种熟悉方式称呼自己，不会有一点生气，并会以同样方式回答他。

" 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" .

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