It is a question of pride as much as anything else.
原因就是要面子。
新概念英语第三册 Lesson 46 Do it yourself

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

question ['kwɛstʃən] 词频1 词根: quir
n. 问题;疑问;怀疑;议题; vt. 问（某人）问题;对（某事物）表示[感到]怀疑;
💡 quest寻求，询问+ion名词后缀 → 疑问
"I can't easily give an answer to your question."
你的问题我难以回答。
近义：impugn, interdict, query, challenge, confute, doubt 反义：back, backstop, reinforce, second, support, advocate
pride [praɪd] 词频1
n. 自尊;骄傲;自满;（狮）群; vt. 以…而自豪， 得意于…; vi. 自豪，骄傲，得意;
💡 婆(p)会骑(ride)马很 骄傲 p(prince王子)+ride(骑):王子骑着高头大马很 骄傲 网友：马 胜 敏 补充：1：旁人（pr）成功时我自豪地拿着
"She was still young and in the pride of her beauty."
她仍然年轻貌美.
近义：imperiousness, insolence, insolency, arrogance, arrogancy, lordliness 反义：humbleness, lowliness, meekness, humility
else [ɛls] 词频1
adv. 其他;否则;另外; adj. 别的;其他的;
"That proposal is nothing else other than a patchwork."
那个建议只是一个大杂烩而已.
近义：other, otherwise, unequal, unlike, different, dissimilar

📚 更多「新概念英语第三册」例句

They had got away with thousands of pounds worth of diamonds.
他们已带着价值数千镑的首饰逃之夭夭了。
Mary and her husband Dimitri lived in the tiny village of Perachora in southern Greece.
玛丽与丈夫迪米特里住在希腊南部一个叫波拉考拉的小村庄里。
Though it may be possible to measure the value of material good in terms of money,
虽然物质产品的价值可以用金钱来衡量，
The following day, however, the doctor consoled him by telling him that his chances of being able to leave hospital in time for New Year celebrations were good.
然而，第二天，医生安慰他说，出院欢度新年的可能性还是很大的，那人听后振作了精神。
Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide.
这个馅饼盘子确实少见，有18英尺长，6英尺宽。
This ran on an 'operating system' called DOS, produced by a then small company named Microsoft.
这种电脑采用了一种被称为磁盘操作系统（DOS）的工作程序，而这种程序是由当时规模不大的微软公司生产的。