妄自尊大

Poverty in the world compromises man more than anything else and will no doubt bring about the downfall of such a megalomaniac animal.

这世上的贫困比其他任何东西更危害人类，很有可能引发人类这种妄自尊大的动物的垮台。

"Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, and Messieurs Citizens, I perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ.

"长官先生和各位先生，"主教说，我知道什么事使你们感到丢人，你们一定认为一个贫苦的牧师跨着耶稣基督的坐骑未免妄自尊大。

These paragons of narcissism, misanthropy and delusion now have a shrine of their own, at tweetingtoohard.com (tagline:"Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.").

这些自我陶醉、愤世嫉俗和善于妄想的典范们，现在有了一个他们自己圣地，就在 tweetingtoohard.com （标语："这里是妄自尊大、夸夸其谈者得到承认的地方。"

In his "Political Dictionary" he later explained that negativism was the key word; that nabob, from the Urdu, meaning governor, hence self-important potentate, was the ideal practitioner of a negative outlook (see the use by John Adams in 1776); and that nattering was meant to denote complaining, but that Stewart Alsop, his pundit-mentor, had told him that the British use was closer to chattering.

他后来在其《政治词典》一书中解释说，"怀疑主义"是上面这个短语的关键词；来自乌尔都语的"大佬"本指总督，所以引申为妄自尊大的要人，用来指持怀疑主义观点者再合适不过（见约翰·亚当斯1776年对nabob一词的用法[注11]）；而nattering这个词被用来指发牢骚，但对他进行言传身教的权威评论家斯图亚特·阿尔索普告诉他说英国人对该词的使用接近chattering。

Outback's philosophy of self-sufficiency often results in his being alone and outnumbered in battle situations.

孤行的妄自尊大的性格与他的独处和身经百战有很大关系。

In our foreign trade some people are arrogant and overweening, and this is wrong

在对外贸易方面，有些人骄傲，妄自尊大，这是不对的。

He is learned, but neither stuffy nor pedantic.

他很博学，但既不妄自尊大也不卖弄学问。

The pride and daring of place were not for her.

她不是那种一有了地位就妄自尊大的人。

In her new film, Victoria plays a prima donna television presenter.

维多利亚在她的新片里扮演一位妄自尊大的电视节目主持人。

Education had not given her so very hurtful a degree of self-consequence.

她受的教育危害较小，没有使她达到那样妄自尊大的程度。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。