Hofstadter says our country's educational system is in the grips of people who " joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise."

霍夫斯塔特说，掌握我们国家教育体系的“沾沾自喜地、激进地公然宣称敌视才，迫不及待地认同那些看在才方面最难造就的孩子。”

STEP 4 Join a book club and familiarize yourself with the New York Times’ bestseller list. Aquariuses pride themselves on being well-read.

加入读书俱乐部，熟悉纽约时报最畅销图书列表。水瓶座以博多识而沾沾自喜。

Were the same fair prospect to arise at present, as had flattered them a year ago, every thing, she was persuaded, would be hastening to the same vexatious conclusion.

想起了年以前，她们曾经满怀希望，沾沾自喜，如今虽然眼见得又是好事在即，然而转眼的工夫，便会万事落空，徒感懊丧。

" Now, let's see who we've got, " said Greyback's gloating voice from overhead, and Harry was rolled over onto his back.

“现在，让我们看看找到了什么，”格雷伯克沾沾自喜的声音从哈利的头上传。哈利被翻转过。

However, you are also the most likely to be complacent.

但你千万不能因此沾沾自喜，得意自满。

However, the Romans were complacent with the learnings of the Greeks, and little innovation or exploration of new ideas around science and knowledge took place during this era.

然而，罗马对希腊的识沾沾自喜，在罗马时代，很少有关于科和知识的创新或探索。

As the head of a richly endowed faculty at New York University, his contempt for the poverty of British universities could sound gratingly complacent.

作为纽约大大额捐资教员中的领头, 他对英国大普遍财政窘迫的轻蔑听起可能成了刺耳的沾沾自喜。

The charlatan scoffed. “Your magic is more than equal to that fool's imagination, ” he assured her, and he retired to the castle, well pleased with his own cleverness.

江湖骗子嗤之以鼻。“你的魔法完全对付得了那个傻瓜的想象力。”他向她保证后便回城堡了，并为自己的聪明沾沾自喜。

Still smiling her wide, self-satisfied smile, she sat down at her desk.

她咧着大嘴、沾沾自喜地微笑着，在讲台后面坐下了。

Oh, I was just rude back there. Gloating and everything, and I apologize.

我刚刚太无理了。沾沾自喜，我向你道歉。

Open a window. It's about to get smug in here.

开窗吧，房间里要充满沾沾自喜的气息了。

And how does he do it? By being a thorn in the side of self-congratulation.

他又是怎么做的呢？身为那些沾沾自喜者的眼中钉。

We simply cannot afford to be complacent about the future of our car industry.

【complacent】我们完全没有资格对汽车业的前景沾沾自喜。

Vimini was obviously quite pleased with her guile.

维米尼显然颇为自己的机巧沾沾自喜。

It is an emotion made up of the satisfaction in security, pride of property, the pleasure of being desired, the gratification of a household, and it is only by an amiable vanity that women ascribe to it spiritual value.

它不过是对有保障的生活的满足，对拥有家资的骄傲，对有需要自己沾沾自喜，和对建立起自己的家庭洋洋得意而已；女们禀性善良、喜爱虚荣，因此便认为这种感情极富于精神价值。

" You see, " Wendy said complacently, " our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time" .

" 你们听着，" 温迪沾沾自喜地说，" 我们的女主角知道母亲直会把窗户开着，让她的孩子们飞回去。 所以孩子们在外面待了许多年，过得非常开心。"

We were getting Jonah because he was perceived to have misused his privilege, but Jonah was on the floor then, and we were still kicking, and congratulating ourselves for punching up.

之前，我们把乔纳给揪出， 因为他滥用自己的特权，但当乔纳已经倒下了，我们还上去补两脚，还以为自己英雄了得，沾沾自喜。

I am myself rather dusty this evening, since I am very relaxed, and indeed come with a certain smug satisfaction in having survived one hundred sessions; and you may feel a smug satisfaction also.

今晚我自己也是尘土飞扬，因为我很放松，确实为熬过了百节课而有某种得意的满足感；你们可能也会感到种沾沾自喜的满足。

The crab seems to gloat over its big moment as a master hunter. And then it examines what it's got ---- an arm, one crummy arm, I mean, what the heck?

这蓝蟹似乎还在为自己大师级的捕获而沾沾自喜。然后它检查自己的收获—触角，微不足道的触脚，搞什么鬼啊？

In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies.

事实上，他还为能安然脱险而沾沾自喜，并且绘声绘色地给姑娘们讲述自己如何成功地对付大发雷霆的导师、道貌岸然的教授，如何击败竞争对手，使她们乐不可支。