自鸣得意

Meanwhile, the application smugly tells the user that the function was canceled .

同时，程序还自鸣得意地告诉用户打印已经取消。

As long as political conditions are attached to restitution of colonial-era plunder to Asia and Africa, the Western world will remain mired in hierarchical smugness about its supposed superiority in culture and human evolution.

只要政治局势附加在殖民时代的对亚洲和非州的掠夺的归还上，西方世界将在文化和人类进化里关于它的所谓优越性陷入层次化的自鸣得意的困境。

A smirk is an affected smile that often expresses an offensive smugness

Smirk 则是指一种做作的，通常表现得自鸣得意的、令人生厌的微笑

"Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put aviewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances."

聪明、愚蠢、暴躁又有点自鸣得意，要不是主演的出色表现，观众们一定会拿牙齿去咬

They're all swelled up on their own expertise.

他们都在为自己的高超技术而自鸣得意

They will clap themselves for gaining tuppence and giving a million away to their enemies.

他们赢了两个铜板，却把一百万都输了给敌人，还会为此而自鸣得意呢。

We can forgive a man for making a usful thing as long as he does not admire it.

一个人做了有用的东西可以原谅，只要他不自鸣得意。

"Fatal Misconception" is to population policy what William Easterly's "White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good"(2006) was to foreign aid: a useful, important but ultimately unbalanced corrective to smug self-satisfaction among humanitarians.

致命的误解》认为William Easterly的《白人的负担：为什么西方已经实施的援助那么多而收益那么小》中所谈到的人口政策——外国援助是有用、重要的，但根本上说是不均衡的，人道主义者有些自鸣得意。

If the West gloried in being wild and woolly, it was also eager to be tame and cultivated.

如果说西部为它的粗野莽撞自鸣得意，它也急于要想温顺优雅。

Looking up for a minute, he noticed a Bhikshu walking slowly ahead on the side of the road. The Bhikshu's steps were firm, his back was straight; there was an air about him of peace and inner strength.

正当他自鸣得意时，他留意到一位比丘从前面的路边缓缓地走来；这位比丘的步伐稳健，背脊挺直，浑身散发出一股宁静与沉著的气息。

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。