自鸣得意

I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

我没有理由想入非非，自鸣得意，以为每一个接近我的人都会爱上我。

He was indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man.

他仿佛觉得，神甫的原有是使他回心转意的一种最大的迫击和最凶猛的攻势，如果他对那次恩德还要抵抗，那他就会死硬到底，永不回头；如果他屈服，他就应当放弃这许多年来别人种在他心里、也是他自鸣得意的那种仇恨。那一次是他的胜败关头，那种斗争，那种关系着全盘胜负的激烈斗争，已在他自身的凶恶和那人的慈善间展开了。

Omphaloskepsis: literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption

navel是肚脐，只看得到自己的肚脐，我认为是目光短浅，自鸣得意的意思

He is not, in the end, tragedy's primary victim, but he is its precipitator, and the instructor of the complacency that it is the task of this movie to shatter .

虽然在故事的结尾处，他不是这场悲剧的主要受害者，但却是他直接引发了这场悲剧，而且他也是该片片力抨击的主题自鸣得意的倡导者。

Don't raise your eyebrows. It makes you look smug.

别扬起眉毛，那会显得你很自鸣得意

We are all guilty of complimenting someone on a new dress or sari because they are so obviously proud of it.

当我们恭维某人的新衣服或者纱丽的时候会感觉到愧疚，这是因为我们的赞美会让这个人自鸣得意。

Thus the fool, as compared with the scoundrel, is invariably self-complacent.

所以同恶棍相比，蠢人总是自鸣得意。

If the surge continues to be successful, Mr Bush will have some reason for self-congratulation; if it falters and fails, he will leave office a broken man.

如果这种民主浪潮能继续成功，布什先生就有理由自鸣得意；如果有动摇并且失败了，他将如丧家之犬一样黯然离职。

His book is an accessible exposition of the causes and consequences of the market trauma though some readers may balk at Mr Kaufman's self-congratulatory tone and his failure to come clean about his own role in the mess.

尽管一些读者对 Henry 自鸣得意的论调和他在这场危机中没有把自己的职责全盘托出有所意见，但这本书对这场市场创伤的前因后果的阐述，仍是一本浅显易懂的佳作。

You have what can be showed self-satisfaction.

你有什么可自鸣得意。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。