The researchers also provided participants with a definition of narcissist: egotistical, self-focused and vain.

、以自我为中心、以及自负。

And it's not so much a question about why mama bear crossed the road as it is how she did it with three wayward cubs.

所以与其问熊妈妈为什么要过马路，不如说她是陪它三只幼崽一起过马路。

But Helen was quick to realize that Miss Sullivan was not about to let the petulant child get away with her outrageous behaviour, as had been happening up until then.

但海伦很快就意识到，沙利文老师不会像之前发生那样，让这个孩子不受惩罚。

I finally asked, an unintentional note of petulance in my voice.

我终于开口问道，声音里带着一丝并非有意。

At Lowardwe shall tame her unruly spirit.

在 Loward 我们会把她驯服。

This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet.

这个世界迄今还没有掌握非基督徒所罗门智慧。

Now psychologists have long been interested in these sort of violent, disruptive, perverse acts and the kinds of people who do them.

心理家一直对这种暴力、破坏、行为和这类肇事者很感兴趣。

Riordan's series, although full of frothy action and sometimes sophomoric humor, also cleverly engages in a literary exercise as old as the Western canon: spinning new adventures for the petulant gods and compromised heroes of Greek mythology.

赖尔登系列虽然充满了浮华动作，有时还带有幼稚幽默，但也巧妙地运用了一种与西方经典一样古老文手法：为希腊神话中神和妥协英雄们编造新冒险故事。

Little Lucy Ferrier was borne along pleasantly enough in Elder Stangerson's wagon, a retreat which she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son, a headstrong, forward boy of twelve.

小露茜·费瑞厄被收留在长老斯坦节逊篷车里，非常受人喜爱。她和斯坦节逊三个妻子，还有他那、早熟十二岁儿子同住在一起，露茜不久便恢复了健康。

He was fed up with both of them: with Sculley for not having the guts to take command over the past year, and with Jobs for " acting like a petulant brat."

在过去一年里，斯卡利没胆量负责指挥管理，而乔布斯则“像个小孩儿”。

We may do something that could get us labelled as 'self-indulgent' (like having psychotherapy three times a week or writing a book), but that is vital to our spirit.

我们可能会做一些让自己被贴上‘’标签事情（每周进行三次心理治疗或者是写本书），但那对我们灵魂来说是至关重要。

Yes, master, drunk from the nutmegs it was devouring under that nutmeg tree where I caught it. See, Ned my friend, see the monstrous results of intemperance!

是，先生，它在豆寇树下吃豆寇吃醉了，我就在树下把它捉到。尼德好朋友，请您看看这贪吃贪喝、过度可怕结果吧！

We have two bright, young people who chose the college path and two wayward souls whose mistakes we can only hope to learn from.

我们邀请了两位选择走入大优秀青年，还有两个迷途青年，但愿我们能从他们身上吸取教训。

The afternoon was wretched. They could not understand the caprice of this German, and the strangest ideas came into their heads.

下午气氛是愁闷。谁也不明白这个德国人为什么如此，各人脑海里都被一些稀奇古怪念头纠缠着。

There's always an interesting problem when you're working with animals that are independent thinkers and some kind of headstrong.

当你与独立思考和某种动物打交道时，总是会有一个有趣问题。

I did not humour her caprice of talking to me.

我没有迁就她跟我说话。

They were weary, besides, of humouring the people, and of depending upon their caprice for a subsistence.

此外，他们厌倦了取悦人民， 也厌倦了依靠他们来维持生计。

You are going to humour all my whims to-night.

今晚你要满足我所有和妄想。

The first words of the novel, in some village in La Mancha, whose name I do not care to recall, exhibit the narrator's willfulness as well as the author's control over his material.

小说开篇几句话， 发生在拉曼查某个村庄，我无意回忆其名字，就展现了叙述者以及作者对其素材掌控。

But with that thought, also came a stronger, a more willful voice from deep within.

但伴随着这个想法，内心深处也传来了更强烈、更声音。