自欺

I prefer my cynicism to your self-deceiving optimism.

宁愿玩世不恭也不你欺欺人乐观。

27. Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.

不同观众尽管可以用不同辞藻和欺本为这种兴趣辩解，可它归根到底是丑恶凶残。