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

一丝微弱的涟漪激起了沃尔特自我满足的平静水域。

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

由于自我控制的满足感会延迟，因此很容易道。

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

为了不正当的自我满足感，德国国防军的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（ 自我满足的动物冠军）、 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足的，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，”我母亲会带着极大的自我满足感说。

" 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的局限性，福尔摩斯先生，但至少治愈了我们自我满足的弱点”。

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的满足，并且无论与地球上曾存在的哪一代人相比，我们都应受到不利的比较。

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足自我需求的模式都将变多余。

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：一个人的自我满足是一种免税的财产，发现被贬低是非常不愉快的。

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.

你能从这段关到什么是最重要的——无论是物质利益、权力感、身体愉悦，还是某种形式的自我满足。

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.

发现他的不忠——这是她偶然发现的——摧毁了她一生可能拥有的自我满足的残余。她彻底崩溃了，在佩费塔的怀里抽泣和哭泣。

“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，由于自我的不满足而不断给出的答案会被文学历史学家用一个巨大的纸夹夹在一起，人们管这叠纸叫做他们的“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.

在人际关我们的目的不在于打败对手（除了自我满足的孤独以外“赢”并没有奖励），而更像是互相帮助从而找到我们自己最好的样子。

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的理想和梦想，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足状态所需的雄心。

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.

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

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的小脸， 长在漂亮的长脖子上， 他过去常常看到在最完美的自我满足的优雅管理下转动。

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、几乎自鸣意和自我满足的方式，建立了一种共识，这种共识在与公众的接触是无法生存的。

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.

自我否定的精神，近乎禁欲主义，曾在过去激励奈特，宣布自己随着爱情的诞生而去，随着爱的诞生而消失，自尊心弥补了自我满足的缺乏。

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.

在本月出版的新书《终结的神话: 疫情和变革时期模糊的失去》(The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss In a Time of Pandemic and Change)，她写道，美国是一个崇尚自我满足和理性叙事的地方。