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。

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

“别以为是， ” 她亚瑟叔叔说。

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

也许这只是因为是一个者。

It put their visitor in the position of a prig.

它使他们访客处于位置。

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——觉得是个命不凡人”。

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

“搞不懂你所说一本正经是什么意思，”罗莎蒙德说。

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

一本正经是指狭隘地或觉地专注于己精神或精神成就人。

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

“你在生活中是一个人； 你会死” 。

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.

如果有时间，而不是生怕一个命不凡仆人路过，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" .

“是，妈妈，他们意见是要付钱。但是一个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， 狭隘地和觉地专注于己精神或精神成就人是一个盲目者。

" 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” 。

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，如果一个人想成为一个命不凡人或一个清教徒，一个人可以炫耀己对他们道德观点，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。他言语道：“在这里当老师，他一定是个可怜命不凡人：还不如去教训树木，让它们长成己样子”。

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，而傲慢者听到圣让以那种熟悉方式称呼己，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" .

“那么就不是‘乖乖女’， 因为不喜欢。想要一个最好意义上绅士， 可以等待， 因为见过一个， 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！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。但必须承认，它们大多是一本正经，而且它们是商业性。