No company wants to hire a cynical, negative, smug person.

没有公司会愿意去雇佣一些愤世嫉俗，消极，自鸣得意的人。

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Connor A very different writer, but Flannery O'Connor has a book called Revelations which is about this very smug person, "Thank goodness, I'm not white trash."

虽然风格不同，但是Flannery，O’,写过一本书，叫做《醒悟》,描述了一个非常自以为是的人，“谢天谢地，我不是白人垃圾

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But we begin to see that beneath that smug, arrogant veneer lies a fragile, vulnerable person, which I think is so often true of bullies.

但是我们开始看到他的傲慢之下，那易碎的自大的谎言和脆弱的性格，我想这也通常是弱者的表现。

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Connor A very different writer, but Flannery O'Connor has a book called Revelations which is about this very smug person, "Thank goodness, I'm not white trash."

虽然风格不同，但是Flannery，O’,写过一本书，叫做《醒悟》,描述了一个非常自以为是的人，“谢天谢地，我不是白人垃圾“

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