A faint ripple stirred the flat waters of Walter's self-satisfaction.

一丝微弱涟漪激起了自我满平静水域。

Because there is a delayed satisfaction associated with self-control, it can be easy to get off track.

由于自我控制满感会延迟，因此很容易偏离轨道。

The Wehrmacht's amateur film-makers film them with a perverse sense of self-satisfaction.

为了不正当自我满感，德国国防军业余电影人拍摄了他们。

These animals include other primates (the animal champs of sexual self-gratification), elephants, walruses, bats and turtles, among many others.

这些动物包括其他灵长类动物（ 自我满动物冠军）、 大象、 海象、 蝙蝠和海龟等。

He came back gay and self-satisfied, eager and busy, caring nothing for Miss Woodhouse, and defying Miss Smith.

他回来时是同性恋和自我满，渴望和忙碌，对伍德豪斯小姐毫不在乎，并且蔑视史密斯小姐。

" Well, I'm not, " my mother would say with enormous self-satisfaction.

“我可不会，”我母亲会带着极大自我满感说。

" Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction" .

“每个人都会发现自己局限性，福摩斯先生，但至少治愈了我们自我满弱点”。

We are apparently incurably addicted to our own satisfactions — and deserve to be compared unfavourably to pretty much any generation that ever walked the earth.

显然，我们都无可救药地沉溺于自我满，并且无论与地球上曾存在哪一代人相比，我们都应受到不利比较。

Accusing, defending, attacking — all those patterns that are designed to strengthen or protect the ego or to get its needs met will then become redundant.

指责、防御、攻击——所有那些旨在加强或保护自我或满自我需求模式都将变得多余。

For my part I have some fellow-feeling with Dr. Sprague: one's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

就我而言，我对斯普拉格博士有一些同感：一个人自我满是一种免税财产，发现被贬低是非常不愉快。

What you can get out of the relationship is primary — be it material gain, a sense of power, physical pleasure, or some form of ego gratification.

你能从这段关系中得到什么是最重要——无论是物质利益、权力感、身体愉悦，还是某种形式自我满。

The discovery of his infidelity—which she made by accident—destroyed such remnants of self-satisfaction as her life might yet possess. She broke down utterly and sobbed and cried in Perfetta's arms.

发现他不忠——这是她偶然发现——摧毁了她一生可能拥有自我满残余。她彻底崩溃了，在佩费塔怀里抽泣和哭泣。

“So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paper clip by literary historians and called their 'oeuvre'.”

“所以诗人们在不断地尝试，或早或晚，由于自我不满而不断给出答案会被文学历史学家用一个巨大纸夹夹在一起，人们管这叠纸叫做他们“毕生心血”。

It is not to defeat an opponent (there are no prizes for 'winning' other than self-satisfied loneliness); the point is more to try to help each other to evolve into the best versions of ourselves.

在人际关系中我们目不在于打败对手（除了自我满孤独以外“赢”并没有奖励），而更像是互相帮助从而找到我们自己最好样子。

If parents just talked more about their ideals and dreams, even if these had been frustrated, the children might develop the ambition needed to break through the complacency of their present selves.

如果父母多谈论一下自己理想和梦想，即使这些梦想曾受挫， 孩子们也可能会培养出突破当前自我满状态所需雄心。

With a triumphant smile of self-satisfaction, the general wished he could do the same, for he never entered his, without being vexed in some way or other, by its falling short of his plan.

带着自我满胜利微笑，将军希望他能做同样事情，因为他从来没有进入过他计划，而没有以某种方式烦恼，因为没有达到他计划。

When he rose he was very near to a lovely little face set on a fair long neck which he had been used to see turning about under the most perfect management of self-contented grace.

当他站起来时， 他非常靠近一张可爱小脸， 长在漂亮长脖子上， 他过去常常看到在最完美自我满优雅管理下转动。

Earlier this year, Baker declared that In net zero, as with Brexit, the political class has in a very, almost smug and self-satisfied way, built a consensus which is not going to survive contact with the public.

今年早些时候，贝克宣称，在净零排放方面，就像英国脱欧一样，政治阶层以一种非常、几乎自鸣得意和自我满方式，建立了一种共识，这种共识在与公众接触中是无法生存。

The spirit of self-denial, verging on asceticism, which had ever animated Knight in old times, announced itself as having departed with the birth of love, with it having gone the self-respect which had compensated for the lack of self-gratification.

自我否定精神，近乎禁欲主义，曾在过去激励奈，宣布自己随着爱情诞生而离去，随着爱诞生而消失，自尊心弥补了自我满缺乏。

In a new book published this month, " The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change, " she writes that the United States is a place that privileges narratives of self-sufficiency and rationality.

在本月出版新书《终结神话: 疫情和变革时期模糊失去》(The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss In a Time of Pandemic and Change)中，她写道，美国是一个崇尚自我满和理性叙事地方。