He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect.

脑子里想到这些年轻人也许狂妄负，举止无理，肆，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我辨护，似乎年长是受人尊敬的理由。

Let me ask you a question. I hope I'm not being presumptuous, but there have been women in your life?

我想问你一个问题，希望不会太冒昧，不过你生命中有过女人吗？

I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.'

我想他明白他那狂妄的小小的调情已经完了。”

Now, as I look around the room, and I'm being a little presumptuous, I suspect this is going to be hard for some of you.

我看着现场，我可能有点大，我觉得有些人可能觉得很难做到。

I nearly wrote to tell you, but I thought it might be presumptuous.

我差点写信告诉你了，但又觉得好像有点冒昧。

That I should be telling other people what to do, sounds kind of presumptuous to me.

我应该告诉别人该做什么，这听起来有点以为是。

I would suggest also, though I don't mean to be presumptuous, that you ask Mr. Clauss over, where he can get a good look at your paintings.He may not be Santa Claus, but it will do no harm.

我也建议，虽然我并不想冒昧，你可以邀请克劳斯(Mr.Clauss)先生过来，他可以仔细地看看你的画。算他不是圣诞老人(Santa Claus)，这样做也没什么坏处。

If I was going to be presumptuous enough to tell people how to write, I felt there had to be a better reason than my popular success.

如果我斗胆想告诉大家如何写作，我觉得必须有更站得住脚的理由，而不仅仅是我的书广受欢迎这么简单。

First he had proved himself lamentably presumptuous by conducting the analysis himself rather than calling on the help of more worldly experts in Europe.

首先，他分析，没有要求比较世故的专家提供帮助，证明他是目中无人。

It is too presumptuous of him to do so.

他这样做太肆了。

That would be very presumptuous, probably not very successfully either!

那会很以为是的，很可能也不会成功！

" No one but I, " said Catherine, who felt as if she were making the most presumptuous speech of her life, and yet at the same time had an instinct that she was right in doing so.

“除了我，没有人，”凯瑟琳说，她觉得好像在说她这辈子最冒昧的话，但同时又有一种直觉，她这样做是对的。

The neglect of insurance upon shipping, however, in the same manner as upon houses, is, in most cases, the effect of no such nice calculation, but of mere thoughtless rashness, and presumptuous contempt of the risk.

然而，在大多数情况下，像对房屋一样，对航运保险的疏忽是没有经过精心计算的结果，而仅仅是轻率的鲁莽和对风险的肆蔑视。

Obviously each family possessed the strip of sand immediately in front of its umbrella; besides there was much visiting and talking back and forth--the atmosphere of a community upon which it would be presumptuous to intrude.

显然，每个家庭都拥有伞前的那片沙地；此外，还有很多来回的访问和交谈——这是一种社区的氛围，它会冒昧地闯入其中。

The evil consequences that may lie folded in a single act of selfish indulgence is a thought so awful that it ought surely to awaken some feeling less presumptuous than a rash desire to punish.

单次私纵的行为可能会带来邪恶的后果， 这种想法是如此可怕， 以至于它肯定会唤起一些感觉， 而不是鲁莽的惩罚欲望。

Millions of presumptuous girls, intelligent or not intelligent, daily affront their destiny, and what is it open to their destiny to be, at the most, that we should make an ado about it?

数以百万计聪明或不聪明的肆女孩每天都在冒犯的命运，而她们的命运至多是什么，我们应该对此小题大做？

Oh, but it was, it probably came across as an asshole, but I was trying to be sort of humble and not be as presumptuous that they would ever hire me.

哦，但那可能显得我有点大，不过我其实是想表现得谦逊些， 不那么以为是， 好像他们一定会雇用我似的。

For we, the faculty of economists, prove to have been guilty of presumptuous error in treating as a puerile obsession what for centuries has been a prime object of practical statecraft.

事实证明，我们这些经济学家犯了一个以为是的错误，将几个世纪以来一直是实用治国方略的主要目标视为一种幼稚的痴迷。

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous; this is the judgment, which the observation of many characters, has led me to form.

谦虚的人稳重， 谦卑的人胆怯， 虚荣的人狂妄。 这是对许多人物的观察使我形成的判断。

Well, at this point, it does feel presumptuous to even talk about a peace process because we're so far from being in a position to even start one.

好吧，到了这一步，连谈论和平进程都显得有些不量力，因为我们离启动这样一个进程的条件还远着呢。