We tend to be egotistical creatures, he says; when people smile, we tend to think they are smiling at us, but when they look angry, we think they are mad at someone else.

他说，我们人类是自我的生物；当别人微笑时，我们愿意认为他们是对我们微笑，而当别人生气时，我们就愿意认为他们在对其他人生气。

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And then there's Bradley Whitford, as the egotistical but good-natured Josh Lyman, Leo's deputy, who is as everybit as loyalistic as Leo.

还有布拉德利·惠特福德，扮演自私但是本性善良的乔希·赖曼，里奥的副手，他的忠诚毫不亚于里奥。

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Naturally, we have no friends, we have egotistical lovers who spend their fortunes not on us, as they claim, but on their vanity.

我们当然没有什么朋友，我们有的都是一些自私自利的情人，他们挥霍钱财并非像他们所说的是为了我们，而是为了他们自己的虚荣心。

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