smugness

smugness

美 　英

• 網絡裝模作樣；洋洋得意；庸人的自命不凡

例句

SMUGNESS is Estonians' least attractive feature, at least in the eyes of their Baltic neighbours, Latvia and Lithuania.

至少在其波羅的海鄰國拉脫維亞和立陶宛看來，自視甚高是愛沙尼亞最不受歡迎的特點。

But if the fear of being sucked into the bail-out is only partly justified, so is the smugness about having retained sterling.

如果說英國唯恐卷入希臘紓困的理由并不完全站得住腳，那么為保留英鎊而沾沾自喜也是一樣。

" Tan was all childlike smugness. " Look out! These flagstones have nothing under them.

譚宇一臉孩子氣的得意，“小心小心，這些石板下面都是空的。”

But I get it when people write that there's a smugness to the show, that there's an arrogance to the show.

但當人們寫到這個節目是自負的，這個節目是傲慢的，我接受。

I detect a hint of I-told-you-so smugness about some of the gloomy advance commentary on Copenhagen.

在一些有關哥本哈根會議的悲觀先期評論中，我嗅到了一絲“我早就說過了”的自命不凡感。

He startled even his closest friends with Shavian sallies against the smugness of ownership.

他用肖伯納式的俏皮話抨擊起所有權造成的自滿情緒時甚至使他最親近的朋友也吃驚。

Bill Bennett said: "In all my time in Washington I've never seen such smugness, arrogance or such insufferable moral superiority. "

比爾·班尼特說：“我在華盛頓待的這些年，還從來沒有見過如此的裝模作樣，傲慢自大，以及如此令人難以容忍的道德優越感。”

Smugness and evasion over history are widespread in Europe.

沾沾自喜和對歷史逃避在歐洲國家廣泛存在。

and you wonder why some people can't stand this team? you're amazed that not everyone finds the smugness endearing?

你是否懷疑為什么有些人不支持這支球隊？你是否驚訝于不是每個人都發現（湖人的）矯揉造作的讓人喜愛？

But that amounts to the sin of smugness, not dreams of playing Athens to America's Rome.

但那只是可恥的沾沾自喜，而不非夢想把雅典當成美國的羅馬。

Once the foolhardy are teetering on the precipice, it is too late for smugness.

一旦他們在懸崖上搖搖欲墜，那就真的為時太晚。

It is a strange mix of protective sororal sympathy and smugness.

這是一種姐妹間的同情與驕矜的奇特混合體。