They share a deranged obsession with saccharine pop music and television melodramas, but are devoid of personal ambition, social ability or even self-awareness.

他们同样疯狂痴迷于甜腻的流行音乐和电视通俗剧，但却缺乏个人志向，社会技能，甚至自我意识。

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Even our buzzwords - self-help, self-promotion, self-esteem - reflect our obsession with ourselves.

甚至我们的流行词—自助，自我推销，自尊—反映出我们内心的想法。

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Bentley was a self-taught scientist and artist whose singular obsession with the snowflake's infinite variety extended to how it was formed, she said.

她还说，本特利不仅是一个自学成才的科学家，也是一个用情专一的艺术家，他不仅探索雪花的无穷奥秘，还研究它的成因。

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For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles-style self-obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send-up.

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On the other, education exacerbated his self-consciousness about class, not least his self-confessed obsession with his own cultural proficiency compared to that of his peers, many of whom were solidly middle class.

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His balancing act is delicate: Britain may find his integrationism hard to bear, France may resent his liberalising instinct and even Mr Monti's authority may not divert Germany from its self-defeating obsession with austerity.

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