His pretentiousness will only expose his vacuity.

如果他作势唬人，那只能暴露出他空虚。

I think in those days we were a little shy of our emotions, and the fear of ridicule tempered the more obvious forms of pretentiousness.

我想在过去日子里我们都羞于使自己感情外露，因为怕人嘲笑，所以都约束着自己不给人以傲慢自大印象。

Not so much a pretentiousness as too otherworldly, too - you know, because I feel like they're genuine in their erroneous beliefs.

与其说是自命不凡，不如说是太超凡脱俗了——你知，因为我觉得他们错误信念是真诚。

The Two Hussars (1856) has a quality of pretentiousness and elegance, a snobbish worldly flavour, which shocks one as coming from Tolstoy.

《两个骠骑兵》（1856 年）具有一种矫揉造作优雅气质， 一种势利世俗气息， 令人震惊，仿佛出自托尔斯泰之手。

Though people had laughed a good deal at Haddo's pretentiousness, and been exasperated by his arrogance, they could not fail to be impressed by his obvious wealth.

尽管人们曾多次嘲笑哈多自命不凡， 对他傲慢感到愤怒， 但他们无法不为他明富所折服。

I skimmed a page to see how he wrote. His style was scholarly, but lucid and easy. There was nothing in it of the pretentiousness or the pedantry that too often characterizes the writing of the amateur.

我浏览了一页看他是怎么写。他风格是学术性，但清晰而轻松。它没有任何业余爱好者写作中经常出现自命不凡或学究气。

They were dining at the Ritz in Paris, Edith and Sam, feeling superior to its pretentiousness, because that evening they had determined to return to America, when his divorce should be complete, and to experiment with caravans.

伊迪丝山姆正在巴黎丽兹酒店用餐， 感觉比自命不凡要优越得多， 因为那天晚上他们决定回到美国， 等他离婚应该完成， 并试验大篷车。