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是为了混淆视听，而不是阐明。

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

多亏你使我明白过来，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，那是万万办不到的。”

He carried a black cane with a pretentious ivory handle.

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。但是你知道为什么字母表里的字母是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.

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

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

就是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.

无想当外交政策的“主教”，这个称号真是自命不凡。

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，但人们这样做是有原因的。

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

哦, 那地方是那么的自命不凡 我一直都非常想去。

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

珀西七年级了，这是在霍格沃茨的最后一年，在照片上看起来特别自命不凡。

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

是从欧洲哪来的 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，”。

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们有资格获得成功和生活的美好事物。

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

我自鸣得，自命不凡吗？不，等等。这的是你。

Careful reading or not, Frank didn't publish any stories in those markets while attending college, although he did publish half a dozen or so in the campus literary magazine (we'll call it The Quarterly Pretension) .

虽然弗兰克读得很用心，但大学期间始终没能在这些杂志上发表过任何作品，不过在校内的文学刊物（假设名为《自命不凡季刊》）七，却成功发表了六七篇小。

Even though everyone in Spain seemed to think they were somehow exceptional because they went around yawning and drinking and playing foreign music in restaurants and going to bed in the middle of the day.

尽管每个西班牙人都好像有些自命不凡，大着舌头四处晃悠，在饭馆里放异国音乐，还大白天睡大觉。尽管坐大巴旅游的人光天化日之下大喝啤酒，就好像们是在马戏团工作一样。

At half–past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with evident vanity, he proceeded to encase his feet.

十二点半，火车停在布尔汉普尔。路路通在那儿花了很大价钱，才买到一双缀有假珍珠的拖鞋。穿起这双拖鞋大有自命不凡非常体面之感。

However Arthur is trying to live up to his mother's belief that he was born to spread laughter in the world, an expectation that feeds into his delusions of grandeur.

然而，亚瑟仍在努力不辜负妈妈的期望，那就是生来就是要为世界带来欢乐。正是这一期望，让误以为自己自命不凡。