Thus began the " Great Game" , an entirely unnecessary competition for Afghanistan between Russia and Britain, conjured up by armchair polemicists in London.

这样一来，“大博弈”拉开了序幕，英俄两国对阿富汗展开了一场毫无意义的势力争夺，而这一切的始作俑者却是伦敦市内倚在扶手椅上夸夸其谈的辩论家们。

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

我们常常夸夸其谈，却很少付出爱心，并仇恨得太多。

But now HSBC (cumulative profits of $101 billion since 2007) is often lumped in with the likes of Royal Bank of Scotland (cumulative losses of $80 billion), a target of attacks from foaming parliamentary committees and a hatchet-wielding media.

但是现在汇丰银行（自2007年以来累计收益为1010亿美元）经常与苏格兰皇家银行（累计亏损为800亿美元）这类归并同类，而苏格兰皇家银行则是那些夸夸其谈的议会议员和唇枪舌剑的媒体攻击的对象。

Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.

和他一起生活，有是很愉快的，虽然他有个怪毛病，许别在他面前扯谎、夸夸其谈，或装模作样。

Fine. 24 hours, one graveside rant, and then we come home.

好吧 24小 在他墓地前夸夸其谈后 我们回家。

Writing and literature classes can be annoyingly preoccupied by (and pretentious about) theme, approaching it as the most sacred of sacred cows, but (don't be shocked) it's really no big deal.

写作和文课经常会长篇大套，夸夸其谈地讨论主题，叫胜其烦，仿佛这是神牛中的圣牛，但是（稳住了）这没什么大了的。

" There are a lot of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software, " Dobbs said, his usual bombast strangely absent.

“于选举的公正性、邮寄投票的规范性、选举投票机和投票软件的规范性，们有很多意见，”道布斯说道，他一贯的夸夸其谈居然消失见了。

Mr Miliband will have to decide whether to leave the rate unchanged and look like a windbag, or try to woo voters as the party of tax increases.

米利班德必须决定，是再试图改变最高税税率而让看上去自己只会夸夸其谈呢，还是以提高税率的政党的形象来取悦选民。

The leaders that you like working for are probably not the kind of bombastic, confident person who's the loudest in a room.

那些你喜欢与之共事的领导，大概会是一个夸夸其谈、自信满满的显眼包。

Oh, please.I don't remember the episode of Star Trek where the guy never goes to space and brags about it in a tuxedo store.

拜托，我可记得，" 星际迷航" 里面有从没上过太空就在一家燕尾服店夸夸其谈了。

The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.

过，还是那句话，光有信仰是够的。对那些有信仰但却只会夸夸其谈的，宇宙只会对其失望地摇摇头：只有那些愿意将信仰付诸行动的，才能从生活中得到想要的答案。

ANORTH KOREAN professor apparently posted footage on YouTube last year boasting that his country was developing applications for the Android mobile-phone operating system.

朝鲜的某位教授去年在YouTube上公开发表了一段视频，在视频里该教授夸夸其谈，说朝鲜正在开发Android手机的应用程序。

They were full of wind or full of hot air. He says newspapers in Cincinnati, Ohio used this expression in the eighteen seventies.

空话连篇，夸夸其谈。他说，俄亥俄州辛辛那提的纸曾在19世纪70年代使用过这个说法。

I think it's really notable in this video, he's far, far less bombastic than usual as a very personal tone to this.

我认为在这个视频中非常值得注意的是，他没有像往常那样夸夸其谈，而是呈现出一种非常私的语气。

The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

最重要的是你们已经尝试了。大多数只是夸夸其谈，梦想着发财致富，而你们已经付出了行动。

For a while, in Cairo and Beirut, he worked for Radio Palestine, but the bombast and sloganeering of politics repelled him.

他曾在开罗和贝鲁特为巴勒斯坦广播电台工作过一段间，但他对政治的夸夸其谈和口号感到厌恶。

In a subsequent appearance outside the courthouse, however, he was bombastic promising to go on the attack against his political enemies.

然而，在随后出现在法院外，他夸夸其谈地承诺将继续反击他的政敌。

Standing up in the middle of speech and you know shouting him down. We need some of that, right?

在他夸夸其谈挺身而出，让他语塞。我们需要这样的勇士，是吗？

But are they really the best thing since sliced bread, or is the hype all just hot air? !

但是它们真的那么好吗，或只是夸夸其谈？！

To talk through your hat - it means to talk a lot about something you don't really understand.

" To talk through your hat" ，意思是夸夸其谈一些你并真正理解的事情。