Prissy put down the child and obeyed.

百里茜放下韦德，照她的吩咐去做了。

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

大家一致认为，那个额外的逗号既迂腐又过分。

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

你的孩子们也许会是些吃不了苦，缺乏男子汉AE？慨的人，因为一般吃过苦的人的子女往往是这样。

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

没有啦 除非你当时特别神经质又要求太多。

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的小屁孩。

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

就算我说错名字又怎样 你这大惊小怪的笨蛋！

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

我是说错名字！有什么大不了的！ 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的屎尿堆里。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.

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

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.

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