And, perhaps most important, how do you do so without coming across as boastful, smug or arrogant?

大概最重要的是，你要怎么做，才不会让人觉得你是在自吹自擂、沾沾自喜或骄傲自大？

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His trademark earrings were gone and so was the arrogant manner of the past.

他标志性的耳钉和之前的傲慢态度通通都不见了。

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Many of us will have studied a language for years in school and are barely able to string a sentence together, so this idea might sound nothing short of arrogant.

鉴于大多数人在学校学了多年的外语之后往往还只会简单的拼出一句话，我的这个观点可能会显得有点自夸。

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A man is granted too much,he is too well off, he is too rich,he is too strong,he is too beautiful, so much so that he becomes too arrogant and is ready to step beyond his human condition.

如果一个人被赋予太多,他太过富有,强大,接近完美,拥有的太多以至于变得傲慢,准备超越身为凡人的现状

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Of course you can't get so arrogant and pig-headed that you stop listening to others and heeding their advice, but you should never get so overwhelmed by doubters that you stop.

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