The enormity of this hubris is staggering.
这种狂妄的程度令人惊愕。
And perhaps that is the biggest danger facing Brazil: hubris.
也许狂妄自大才是巴西面临的最大危险。
But the gods are offended by hubris.
但是,极度的高傲自信开罪了神灵。
There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
当然了,是这三种:懒惰、急躁、傲慢。
For now, the hubris of spurious precision has given way to humility.
目前,虚假的精度所引起的妄尊已被谦卑所取代。
Unlike great rock bands, he does not think they will be destroyed by their own hubris.
不像那些伟大的摇滚乐队,威尔曼认为他们不会被自己的桀骜不驯所摧毁。
There was a hubris that was unreal: the climate and the culture and the unbridled optimism.
当时有一种不真实的傲慢气氛:气候、文化和不受拘束的乐观主义。
It may be arrogance, hubris or insecurity that causes him to seek a reaction from you.
这也许是由于自负、骄傲以及不安全感导致他要寻求你的反应。
But generations change, power often creates hubris, and appetites sometimes grow with eating.
但是世代变化,权力通常滋生狂妄,吃得越多胃口越大。
At a time when its erstwhile titans could do with displaying contrition, signs of hubris abound.
在目前华尔街的昔日巨头们该显示忏悔的时候,傲慢的迹象却比比皆是。
Some emerging-market acquisitions are driven by a combination of hubris and frontier mentality.
一些新兴经济体的收购是受自负与探索心态的双重驱使。
There can be no greater definition of stupidity or bravery; insanity or clarity; hubris or grace.
没有什么能比这更好地展现愚蠢或者勇敢,疯狂或者澄明,傲慢或者慈悲。
Modern physicists, aware of the hubris of their 19th-century predecessors, have never thought their subject closed.
现代物理学家们深知19世纪前辈们的狂妄自大,从未想过自己的课题竟然真会结束。
AT THE head office of BT (formerly British Telecom) in London it is hard to find any lingering evidence of imperial hubris.
位于伦敦的BT(以前叫英国电信)公司总部,早年的帝国豪情已一去不返。
People who acknowledge the role of luck in life are as a rule far more humble and less susceptible to mistakes caused by hubris.
认同运气在生活中的作用的人,通常更加谦虚,不大会由于傲慢而犯错。
Faced with what many decried as another example of Apple hubris, social networks lit up in a mix of bewilderment, outrage and parody.
面对许多人所谴责的苹果傲慢的又一个例证,社交网络迸发出大量交织着困惑、愤怒和搞笑的言论。
A pronounced feature of their country's rapid emergence is the awesome self-confidence-and sometimes hubris-it inspires in Indian breasts.
印度快速崛起的一个显著特征就是它激发了印度人胸中令人敬畏的自信心,有时就显得骄傲自大了。
For Europe's woes have all the aspects of a classical Greek tragedy, in which a man of noble character is undone by the fatal flaw of hubris.
因为,欧洲苦难有着希腊古典悲剧的全部特征。希腊悲剧中品格高尚的人常常毁于致命的傲慢缺陷。
And although today’s House Republicans have inhaled less hubris than they did in 1995, not all of the newer ones are so sure about the lesson of that year.
并且虽然如今众议院的共和党人比起1995年的傲慢举动来已经收敛了很多,但不是所有的新人都对那年的一课心里有数。
The problem, says Douthat, is that such people are prone to a form of hubris in which they overestimate their ability to understand and manipulate the world.
杜塔特称,问题在于,这类人容易骄傲自大,他们高估了自己理解和掌控世界的能力。
The melting glaciers should be a similar warning of our hubris — and of the consequences that the earth will face for centuries unless we address carbon emissions today.
融化的冰川也应当起到类似的作用,即警告我们的狂妄自大--以及如果我们不马上处理碳排放问题的话地球将会面临的后果。
Geoengineering, the deliberate modification of the environment to suit human needs, has long been regarded as the height of hubris by many people and most environmentalists.
长期以来,大多数环境保护者认为试图改变环境来满足人类需求的地球工程学是人类的过度自信。
Nonetheless, in several chapters he excoriates the arrogance and hubris of medical specialists, who so frequently in America take charge of patients with a terminal disease.
尽管如此,在书中几个章节里他严厉斥责了一些傲慢狂妄的医学专家,在美国,他们经常去为那些身患不治之症的病患看诊。
Just as confidence is vital to success, so overconfidence typically leads to downfall. And nowhere is such hubris more prevalent than when boardrooms suffer from acquisition mania.
就像信心对于成功至关重要一样,过分自信通常会导致失败。在董事会患上“并购狂热症”时,这种狂妄自大表现得最为常见。
Just as confidence is vital to success, so overconfidence typically leads to downfall. And nowhere is such hubris more prevalent than when boardrooms suffer from acquisition mania.
就像信心对于成功至关重要一样,过分自信通常会导致失败。在董事会患上“并购狂热症”时,这种狂妄自大表现得最为常见。
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