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的事有些抵触罢了。

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

“你在生活中是一个自负的人； 你会死的自负” 。

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

“别自以为是， ” 她的亚瑟叔叔说。

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

也许这只是因为我是一个自负的自负者。

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，身材高大，皮肤黝黑，聪明——能说会道——我觉得是个自命不凡的人”。

" 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自觉地专注于自己的精神或精神成就的人。

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.

如果我有时间，而不是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" .

“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” 。

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成就的人是一个盲目的自负者。

" 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：正确的英语是写历史和散文的一本正经的俚语。最强烈的俚语是诗人的俚语” 。

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，他一定是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” 。

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。