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

自命短语和复杂缩写词使用通常为了混淆视听，而阐明。

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，那万万办到。”

He carried a black cane with a pretentious ivory handle.

他总自命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。但你知道为什么字母表里字母按这种特殊顺序排列吗？

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

当你使用一些很惊喜词时，你最终听起来很自命。

We could call them a stuffed shirt.

我们可以称他们为a stuffed shirt（自命，爱摆架子）。

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、自命临时总统胡安·瓜伊多告诉BBC称他对自己在委内瑞拉生命安全感到担心。

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“主教”，这个称号真自命。

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，但们这样做有原因。

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

哦, 那地方那么自命 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会见时自命英勇。

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

珀西七年级了，这他在霍格沃茨最后一年，他在照片上看起来特别自命。

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

他从欧洲哪来 自命斯坦国吗？

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

我暴揍了萨曼？拉什迪那个自命家伙。

" Jef was really pompous, " he said.

“杰夫非常自命，”他说。

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

自命懒鬼认为他们有资格获得成功和生活中美好事物。

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

我自鸣得意，自命吗？，等等。这说你。

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

行了，我知道你自命什么名侦探。