Robin said pompously that he had an important business appointment.

罗宾傲慢地说他有一个重要的工作约会。

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He rather pompously called them problems of nomenclature, pedagogy and economics.

他傲慢地把它们称为术语问题，教学问题和经济问题。

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He often portrayed, with mocking affection, the collectors themselves, pompously examining new pictures in a studio.

ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier

Part of the fun is the way he condenses the work of others who have approached the subject pompously or sententiously.

ECONOMIST: Walking

Non-governmental organisations, as many charities are pompously described these days, often escape the sort of scrutiny that they, themselves, like to apply to governments and companies.

ECONOMIST: An audit of conservationists