Forward-thinking or self-absorbed?

思想前瞻还是自私自利？

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Among the ill-judged remarks that she calls "saboteurs of small talk", she includes "self-absorbed comments like 'I had the strangest dream."

这些备受批评的交谈话题，她称之为“闲谈破坏者”，自我陶醉的话题也被归入其中。如“我做了一个奇怪的梦。”

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Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.

被自恋症折磨的人会变得只专注于自己的事情，或者不断地自我炫耀。

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And by the time I'm 500,I become completely self-absorbed and I'm sort of a vicious,cruel,vile person.

00岁的时候，我变得完全自私,我变得邪恶，残酷和卑鄙。

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They are, however, fundamentally self-absorbed and self-promoting.

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You are truly extraordinarily and uniquely self-absorbed in a town where self-absorption is common.

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Most of them turn out to be long-winded hagiographies or self-absorbed and pedagogic narratives.

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