egotism

释义

n. 自我中心癖, 自负\n[医] 利己主义, 唯我主义

例句

The improper performances rise from selfish egotism, or what he called "Me-ism", said Roberts. Such thinking leads people to break rules.

罗伯茨表示，种种不良行为很多时候是基于一种狭隘的自我为中心的意识，他用了一个词"Me-ism"来形容，正是这种凡事都先想到"我"的思维方式，造成了人们不顾秩序，不守规章。

Even as late as the 19th century, the poet Samuel Coleridge, in one of his essays on Shakespeare, could describe the villain Iago as “the very alcohol of egotism.”

就在十九世纪，诗人萨缪尔·柯勒律治 (Samuel Coleridge) 在他论述莎士比亚的一篇短文中还将反面角色伊阿古描述为“the very alcohol of egotism” (自尊自大的化身)。