Because I was a priggish young cub, I suppose.

因为是一个自负小崽子，想。

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

严肃查理一世远没有他父亲那么精明，人们普遍认为查理一世践踏了古代英国自由。

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

但已习惯并接受了这样， 就是奇迹。

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.

从唐突电报到趾高气扬律师信，这是个自然演进过程。给你父亲那些律师信，结果当然是刺激他变本。

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.

不确定地去了那里，因为那是陌生地方，耳边有一个微小、自负警告声音，用柯林斯语气告诉，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，是在消失一代人遗物，他们生活在自负而优雅幻想中，在被不那么勇敢傻瓜所取代。