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。

He has his position to think of and the people of Lille are censorious.

他有自己的立场需，而里尔的人们是审查员。

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无法实现的人特别不耐烦，并对人吹毛求疵。

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，一个不么难取悦的人，发现她很迷人。

He was, we cannot help suspecting, something of a bore, a little censorious, a little patronising, a little too sure of his own merits, and a little obtuse to those of other people.

我们不禁怀疑，他是一个令人厌烦的人，有点挑剔，有点居高临下，对自己的优点有点过于自信，对其他人的优点有点迟钝。

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 ，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。

People were censorious; men were jealous of brains in a woman; women suspected intellect in their own sex; and what other lady, she might justly ask, pondered as she walked on the nature of matter and whether snails have teeth?

人们很挑剔；男人嫉妒女人的聪明才智。女人怀疑自己的性别有智慧；她可能会公正地问，还有哪位女士在行走时思物质的本质以及蜗牛是否有牙齿？

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专业术语可以涵盖一切。