The use of pretentious phrases and complex acronyms is generally designed to obfuscate rather than elucidate.

自命不凡的短语和复杂的缩写词的使用通常为了混淆视听，而不阐。

You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

多亏你使我白过来，我既然认定一位小姐值得我去博她欢心，我又一味对她自命不凡，那万万办不到的。”

He carried a black cane with a pretentious ivory handle.

他总自命不凡地拄一根象牙柄手杖。

Sorry to sound patronising. But you do know why the letters in the alphabet are in that particular order?

抱歉，这听起来有点自命不凡。但你知道为什么字母表里的字母按这种特殊的顺序排列的吗？

When you use big words, you just end up sounding pretentious.

当你使用一些很惊喜的词时，你最终听起来很自命不凡。

We could call them a stuffed shirt.

我们可以称他们为a stuffed shirt（自命不凡的人，爱摆架子的人）。

The Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido has told the BBC he fears for his safety and his life in Venezuela.

委内瑞拉反对党领袖、自命的临时总统胡安·瓜伊多告诉BBC称他对自己在委内瑞拉的生命安全感到担心。

Was that I didn't just rip your smug little face off!

就没有当场撕烂你那张自命不凡的小脸！

He let slip that he wanted to be the “vicar” of foreign policy, a word with pope-size pretensions.

他无意中说想当外交政策的“主教”，这个称号真自命不凡。

I know it kind of looks pretentious, but there's a reason why people do this.

我知道这看起来有点自命不凡，但人们这样做有原因的。

Ooh. That place is so pretentious. I've been dying to go there.

哦, 那地方那么的自命不凡 我一直都非常想去。

I may call myself a patron of the arts. It is my weakness.

我可以自命为艺术鉴赏家，这我的嗜好。

Heroic was the account he gave that evening of his interview with the D.H.C.

他在谈起那天晚上跟主任的会见时自命英勇的。

Percy, who was in his seventh and final year at Hogwarts, was looking particularly smug.

珀西七年级了，这他在霍格沃茨的最后一年，他在照片上看起来特别自命不凡。

What part of Europe is he from? Pretentious-stan?

他从欧洲哪来的 自命不凡斯坦国吗？

I parked my fist right in Salman Rushdie's smug gob.

我暴揍了萨曼？拉什迪那个自命不凡的家伙。

" Jef was really pompous, " he said.

“杰夫非常的自命不凡，”他说。

Self-entitled slackers believe that they are entitled to success and the finer things in life.

自命不凡的懒鬼认为他们有资格获得成功和生活中的美好事物。

Am I smug and holier-than-thou? Oh, no, wait. That's you.

我自鸣得意，自命不凡吗？不，等等。这说的你。

Okay, I know you fancy yourself some sort of detective.

行了，我知道你自命什么名侦探。