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1 On last Friday's Radio 4 Today programme, the historian Robert Service played his part to perfection, pompously advising the BBC to "get some sense of proportion".

2 Of course he had heard all the names the redbeard had just so pompously strung out.

3 “We are the selfless messengers of Christ—the only true God,” he proclaimed pompously, as he walked, with theatrical steps, between the tight rows of people, megaphone in hand.

4 On my politely bidding him Good-morning, he said, pompously, “Seven times nine, boy?”

5 He speaks a little pompously at times, and understands less than he thinks he does.

6 “We shall not fail,” he declares, pompously and—as it turns out—inaccurately.

7 He pompously tells the kids that he isn’t going to expel them, but that instead he is going to give them some words of wisdom, words which they will never forget.

8 But Google produced an infinity, or so it seemed, of images of ornate tombs in shadowy alcoves, armour and memorials, bare-boned death's-heads pompously crowned.

9 Van Dyk, of Bainbridge Island, is a lobbyist who was the public face of the pompously named activist group “Citizens for More Important Things.”

10 “All kinds of things,” I said, a trifle pompously.

11 When Davy irritates Denise by pompously saying, “I’m the face of the brand,” his statement is followed by this observation from a found note: “Pride the stench of mankind.”

12 Every couple of weeks another article will be published railing against campus no-platforming or leftwingers policing language, and proclaiming, pompously, how vital it is that “we” should be free to offend.

13 Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.

14 On that pre-invasion night, he was still fussing pompously and endlessly about the “scrip” currency that the allies intended to use in France, and which he regarded as “counterfeit” and somehow demeaning to his nation.

15 "Writers are liars, my dear," Fry pompously tells Calliope after she reminds him that he agreed to free her at the end of his life.

16 “I am far from being a vain man,” he pompously informs us.

17 “How much mercury would it take to reduce two gills of white sulfur?” he asked pompously, as if I’d already given the wrong answer.

18 It pompously marks an event that isn’t going to happen, and its price will rise sharply as a result.

19 It was there that the opening of the resort was pompously celebrated by the Emperor's family on January 9, 1903.

1903年1月9日，在那里，皇家为该度假地举办了开幕庆祝。

20 Fujimoto’s working process became unusually public with a solo exhibition at the Japan House Los Angeles in 2018, titled, somewhat pompously, “Futures of the Future.”

1 自命不凡

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2 不切实地

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3 自命不凡地

importantly pretentiously

4 夸大地

big large

5 傲慢自大地

fastuously