自命

His loftiness sends him into despair when deprived of his job.

他的自命清高使他在下岗后陷入绝望的境地。

He was not what the world generally calls a good man, but I learned afterwards that he had loved his wife very dearly; and that he would have willingly sacrificed his life to her, and constituted himself her guardian, had he not been compelled to earn the daily bread of the madwoman and her child by the exercise of his profession.

他并不是世界上通常所说的一个好人，但我后来知道他曾经十分热爱他的妻子；他心甘情愿地为她牺牲自己的生命，自命为她的保护人，他是为了挣钱养活这疯女人和她的女儿，出于无可奈何，才去当兵的。

As a self-aloof intellect, we disgust some local vulgar leaders who make a spectacle of themselves and are neither rhyme nor reason. They drink, gamble and marry concubine. We often have no other alternative and sign, There is such people; there is such government and its officials.

站在一个自命清高的知识份子的立场，我们实在对某些地方首长感到看不顺眼，而对於这些粗俗的政治家们的喝酒、赌搏、娶小老婆、在公众场合丑态百出，几乎一无是处的种种表现，我们也时常会感到无奈地说：「有什麼样的人民就会出现什麼样的政府、就会有什麼样的政府官员。

Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of norland

约翰？达什伍德太太现在已经自命为诺兰德的女主人了。

I do not pretend to be omniscient, but I am positive about this fact.

我不敢自命无所不知，但对这一事实我确有把握。

Rather like China and Japan, virtuous Germany has made its living out of the overindulgence of others.

就像中国和日本，自命清高的德国人同样也依赖他国的过渡消费。

Each pret ds to be the counterpart of the forerunner .

每一个都自命是和前面一个相匹敌的。

I have no pretence to be an expert on the subject.

我并不自命是这方面的专家。

I have no pretence to being an expert on the subject.

我并不自命是这方面的专家。

I make no pretension to skill as an artist, but I enjoy painting.

我并不自命有画家的技巧，但我喜欢绘画。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。