We grow censorious and deeply disapproving of certain kinds of behavior and people.

我们会逐渐对特定的行为或是人们批评以及严重的谴责。

So, why would females be more censorious observers of people's performances than males?

为什么观察人类表现时，雌性比雄性更挑剔呢？

And what fun to eat all you wanted without having censorious people say you weren't ladylike.

想吃什么，就吃什么，也没有人指责你缺乏大家闺秀的风度，真是痛快。

Our high romantic expectations have made us notably impatient around, and censorious about, those who can’t attain them.

我们对浪漫的高期望使我们对那些无法实现的人特别不耐烦，并对那些人吹毛求疵。

It is better to be excited about your new chapter than to unleash vitriol on colleagues who were unkind or censorious over the years.

与其对那些多年来不甚友善或吹毛求疵的同事大加抨击，不如为自己的人生新篇章高兴。

Elliott, even in his most censorious mood, could not but have approved of her; I, a person less difficult to please, found her ravishing.

埃利奥特，即使在他最挑剔的心情下，也不能不赞同她。我，一个不那么难取悦的人，发现她很迷人。

The connection between learning and freedom is presupposed in many criticisms of students today as censorious or relativist, illiberal or radical, coddled snowflake or warrior for social justice.

当今许多对学生的批评都预设了学习与自由之间的联系，将他们视为挑剔的或相对主义的、不自由的或激进的、娇生惯养的雪花或社会正义的战士。

In 1905, Playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote an op-ed in the New York Times making fun of America's " Comstockery" —a term he used to refer to its censorious attitude toward art and literature.

刘易斯：1905 年，剧作家萧伯纳在《纽约时报》上发表了一篇专栏文章，取笑美国的“康斯托克”——他用这个词来指代美国对艺术和文学的挑剔态度。

I, however, remained censorious, and subsequent glimpses of him, driving in a handsome cab and dining at the George in false whiskers, did not soften me, although Collins, who was reading Freud, had a number of technical terms to cover everything.

然而，我仍然吹毛求疵，随后瞥见他开着一辆漂亮的出租车，戴着假胡须在乔治餐厅用餐，这并没有让我软化，尽管正在阅读弗洛伊德著作的柯林斯有许多专业术语可以涵盖一切。