While the bag used to be a strong status signal, now it signals inauthenticity.

虽然这个包曾经是一种强份标志，但现在它发出了不真信号。

He could maybe try to be cool and woke or try for nerd chic, but Biden knew the political perils of inauthenticity.

他也许可尝试表现得冷静清醒，或者尝试书呆子式时髦，但拜登知道不真治风险。

And to accept that, that on a fundamental level there's an inauthenticity, would crush my self-esteem — that is not living up to my value.

接受这一点， 即在基本层面上存在不真性， 会粉碎我自尊——那不符合我价值。