We're told that Lane isn't exactly a Yale man, but he sure looks a lot like a Yale English major, dare I say, such an unpleasant character, and so, so pompous.

我们知道，Lane准确地说并不是一个耶鲁的学生，但他长得真的很像是耶鲁英语专业的学生，恕我直言，这样一个不讨人喜欢的角色，如此自大的。

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She gave no quarter to an opinionated bishop, a pompous statesman, or a self-satisfied professor.

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Plopped in the middle of these very funny but shrewd travelogues is a chapter subtitled "Taking Econ 101 for Kicks" that should forever bury the pompous pretensions of a lot of what passes for economics.

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To speak clearly: clarity always trumps a pompous regard for niceties of grammar.

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