Because I was a priggish young cub, I suppose.

因为我是一个自负的小崽子，我想。

A far less canny operator than his father, the priggish Charles I was widely seen to be trampling over ancient English liberties.

严肃正经的查理一世远没有他的父亲那么精明，人们普遍认为查理一世践踏了古代英国的自由。

I'm sorry it may sound priggish, but I have grown comfortable with this part of myself.

但我已经习惯并接受了这样的我，我 就是我的奇迹。

From pert telegrams to priggish lawyer's letters was a natural progress and the result of your lawyer's letters to your father was, of course, to urge him on still further.

从唐突的电报到趾高气扬的律师信，这是个自然的演进过程。给你父亲的那些律师信，结果当然是刺激他变本加厉。

I went there uncertainly, for it was foreign ground, and there was a tiny, priggish warning voice in my ear which, in the tones of Collins, told me it was seemingly to hold back.

我不确定地去了那里，因为那是陌生的地方，我的耳边有一个微小的、自负的警告声音，用柯林斯的语气告诉我，它似乎在阻止。

Loving him not at all she grew sorry for him and kissed him sentimentally one night because he was so charming, a relic of a vanishing generation which lived a priggish and graceful illusion and was being replaced by less gallant fools.

一点也不爱他，她开始为他感到难过，一天晚上深情地吻了他，因为他是如此迷人，是正在消失的一代人的遗物，他们生活在自负而优雅的幻想中，正在被不那么勇敢的傻瓜所取代。