Prissy put down the child and obeyed.

百里茜放下韦德，照她吩咐去做了。

There is a consensus on this that that extra comma is pedantic and prissy.

大家一致认为，那个逗号既迂腐又过分。

Your children will probably be soft, prissy creatures, as the children of hard-bitten characters usually are.

你孩子们也许会是些吃不了苦，缺乏男子汉AE？慨人，因为一般吃过苦人子女往往是这样。

Not really, unless you were acting all prissy and demanding.

没有啦 除非你当时特别经质又要求太多。

No, I agree. I mean, Howard always was a prissy mama's boy.

好吧 我也觉得霍华德是个没断奶小屁孩。

I don't care if I said some other girl's name, you prissy old twit!

就算我说错名又怎样 你这大惊小怪笨蛋！

I-I-I don't care if I said some other girl'sname you prissy, old twit!

我是说错名！有么大不了！ 你这个老顽固！

'Cause I'd get a real kick out of watching a prissy little whack job like you lying in your own filth. Know what I mean?

因为我就爱看你们这些疯婆子躺在自己屎尿堆里。明白了？

It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.

用粗略类比时候很可能会犯粗心大意毛病，但如若不用这种方法，就得执着于细节精确，把写作乐趣完全剥离。

Any time she wanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining, far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved of her.

她么时候想大宴宾客，就可以发出邀请，这些客人和那些反对她思想僵化老糊涂相比，心情愉快得多，衣服也漂亮得多。