自鸣得意

Watching the game in the pub, I quaffed more and more lager as time ticked by in an attempt to ease the pain and embarrassment of watching an insipid, resigned performance surrounded by an increasing number of smug Liverpool fans (where do they all come from?).

在酒吧看球的时候，看着时间一点点流逝，我拼命的喝酒来减少因为这场平淡而顺从的表演带给我的痛苦和困窘，我周围是越来越多的自鸣得意的利物浦球迷（他们都是从哪里冒出来的啊？

But neither India's complacent judiciary nor its often-craven journalists shows much interest in reinvestigating his case.

但是印度自鸣得意的法官以及胆小如鼠的记者似乎都没有重新调查这个案件的兴趣。

INT. RICHARD'S OFFICE – DAYTommy smirks and blows a huge bubble with his gum.

汤米自鸣得意地笑着，嚼了嚼口香糖，吹出一个大大的泡泡。

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.

获得了这种宝贵的唯物主义的人，也就可以有那种觉得自己不用负责的快感，并认为自己可以心安理得地霸占一切，地盘、恩俸、荣誉、正当得来或暖昧得来的权力，可以为金钱背弃信义，为功利出卖朋友，昧尽天良也还可以自鸣得意。等到酒肉消化完了，便往坟墓里一钻了事。那多么舒服。我这些话并不是为您说的，元老先生。

A bird streaked across the misty sky and, absently, I turned it into an airplane and then that airplane into many in the skies of France, shattering the artillery park under a rain of bombs.

我又恨又怕(我已经骗过了理查德·马登，只等上绞刑架，承认自己害怕也无所谓了)，心想那个把事情搞得一团糟、自鸣得意的武夫肯定知道我掌握秘密。

A bird streaked across the misty sky and, absently, I turned it into an airplane and then that airplane into many in the skies of France, shattering the artillery park under a rain of bombs.

马登，只等上绞刑架，承认自己害怕也无所谓了，心想那个把事情搞得一团糟、自鸣得意的武夫肯定知道我掌握秘密。

Isn't it a relief," we agreed, semi-smugly,"when it isn't oneself who is saying the wrongest possible thing!

我们半自鸣得意地赞同道，&当不是一个人自己说了错到家的话时，这难道不是一种解脱吗？&

Peter Tucci stands nearby and thanks Dr. Wasserman for his time and smugly smiles.

Peter Tucci 站在一旁，感谢 Wasserman 医生和他对验尸所付出的时间，并且自鸣得意地笑了起来。

Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.

逐渐变大的规模会使机构思考缓慢，拒绝变革，自鸣得意。

Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent

沾沾自喜的，自鸣得意的表现出或感到对自己或自己的处境十分或令人反感的满意；自以为是的自大

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。