Because I was a priggish young cub, I suppose.

因为我是一个自负的，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。

We have had quite enough practice in that, today's punters may think; and a homily on stoicism makes a priggish sort of moral.

现在的观众可能会认为，我练习吃苦已经够多了，这种斯多葛主义的说教是一种有些清高死板的教益。

Priggish Yankee that he was, Adams got along with neither Benjamin Franklin, the American minister, nor Charles Vergennes, the French foreign minister.

亚当斯是个爱吹牛的北方佬, 他既不与美国部长本杰明·富兰克林相处, 也不与法国外交部长夏尔·韦尔热内斯相处。

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。