egotism

1 To see if a president’s speeches reflect egotism in American society at large, the team compared its results to studies of egotism in other cultural products, such as 20th-century books and songs.

2 As I recall, he was being referred to as the “Rodin of Japan,” and he was determined to stave off the egotism that often accompanies fame.

3 “Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn’t carry any pleasant egotism.”

4 The drama in “Landfalls” is unrelenting: There’s petty infighting, rampant egotism, insufferable personalities, drunkenness, heartbreak and rivalries — sort of a maritime version of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

5 He was helpless under the reign of his egotism.

他在自我意识的支配下感觉无助.

6 This mixture of egotism, judgmentalism and aggrievement has a corrosive effect, like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to croak.

7 Wen: VHS tapes, the Bible, radio, old men, egotism, creeps, makeup, distance, walking around Paris.

8 In "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life," Karen Armstrong, a prominent and prolific religious historian, offers a prescription for the world's addiction to egotism that might sound counterintuitive.

9 When a man has looked upon such massive waste of life as I have witnessed in these three battles, the presumption to consider his own little personal dreams becomes a matter of supreme egotism.

10 And it’s about how a defiance of that divine egotism is, perhaps, the most deeply human and moral aim of existence.

11 Those who know her say her aloofness is a reflection of sensitivity, not egotism.

12 She seems not to recognize that these final productions, with their depressing quotient of egotism and Islamophobia, ended Fallaci’s career on a low note.

13 And even if Andrew Woodall overdoes the biting off of hard consonants as the caustic Nick, he catches the character's defiant egotism.

14 Through Gavin, the show could indict the industry’s various shades of egotism, audacity, selfishness, sexism, racism, greed and general arrogance toward the consumer.

15 Such improperly non-dispassionate assessments, though, about his looks and their corollary, his alleged egotism, drive the professor nuts.

16 Finding herself world-famous by the time she was eighteen only encouraged the actress's egotism.

发现自己仅在十八岁时已经是举世闻名了，使得这个女演员开始自大了。

17 But it would be a mistake, in my view, to write off the actions of singers like Ross as simple egotism.

18 Cunning egotism: if I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing IT; at any rate, brag.

狡猾的自吹自擂：倘使我不能自夸知道一些事情，那我就自夸毫不知情；总之，自吹自擂就是了。

19 Of course, Joel still backslides into the man cave of egotism — he is encouraging of Mei’s professional ambitions but has a wounded tantrum when she greases the wheels for him to get his liquor license.

20 Rather than prop up her parents as easy targets, Bartlett lays bare their contradictory humanity over a 44-year journey from wide-eyed idealism to head-in-the-sand egotism.

1 自私自利

sordid egoism egoistic egocentric selfish egotistical self-interest self-centred self-absorption egocentrism self-concern

2 利己

selfish selfness

3 利己主义

individualistic egocentric egoistic materialism individualism egoism privatism selfness egotistic

4 自负

high-swelling high-headed swelled-headed vogie grand confident vain pretentious conceited snobby overconfident snobbish chesty portentous ditzy stuck-up egotistic overweening priggish bigheaded self-deceived self-conceited vainly arrogantly egotistically pride inflation ego self-esteem arrogance conceit pretension puffiness snobbery overconfidence self-importance vainglory pretentiousness bighead self-conceit self-pride arrogancy amour-propre self-opinion priggery conceitedness swell get above oneself full of oneself swelled head swollen head side vanity sufficiency self-regard have tickets on oneself high big arrogant self-sufficient smug cocky self-important hincty stomach self-confidence flatulence pedantry fanfaronade bloat plume pique with a superior air be full of oneself pique oneself upon toplofty important pompous snotty assumptive magniloquent self-opinionated cock-a-hoop assumption self-admiration self-appreciation fancy turn head proud big-headed bumptious importantly fancy yourself have a big head

5 自我中心

self-centred self-centredness egocentric

6 自我夸张

self-inflation

7 以自我为中心

egocentric

8 自满

cosy complacent smug self-satisfaction self-content turn head

9 自高自大

important wise bouncy egotistic high-blown swollen-headed

10 自大

pride vanity hubris rodomontade put on the dog superior consequential pompous haughty uppity self-important huffy overweening self-esteem arrogance pomposity self-conceit cock put on airs vain glory look big proud as a peacock magnify oneself a swelled head jumped-up arrogant snooty supercilious self-importance hauteur egotistical

11 自我主义

egoism swollen cranium