megalomania

noun

1. 夸大狂；自大狂
   a mental illness or condition in which sb has an exaggerated belief in their own importance or power
2. 渴望权力；权欲熏心
   a strong feeling that you want to have more and more power

1. 自大狂;夸大狂;妄自尊大
   Megalomania is the belief that you are more powerful and important than you really are. Megalomania is sometimes a mental illness.

1. This allows them to control matters without being athletic, thus appealing to their megalomania and vanity.
   这让他们不必成为运动员就能够控制体育事务，愈发觉得自己了不起，虚荣心也得到极大满足。
2. But Mr Kim, for all his megalomania and paranoia, is a shrewd tactician.
   金正日虽狂妄自大，但也不失狡猾。
3. But the flipside to his desire for worldwide celebrity was megalomania evident when he impersonated Jesus at a notorious performance at an awards show in 1996.
   但他渴望赢得全球声誉的另一面，却是他的妄自尊大在1996年一次颁奖典礼中，他竟然装扮成耶稣，那场表演臭名远扬。
4. Hadn't some European scholar once said that after the Great War this megalomania of the American bourgeoisie had developed out all proportion?
   不是欧洲有一位学者曾经说过大战后美国资产阶级的夸大狂几乎发展到不合理么？
5. It was his megalomania that convinced the president he could invade.
   他的狂妄使总统相信他会发起侵略。
6. Unfortunately, it is a well-established rule of politics that the longer a leader is in office, the more likely he is to succumb to megalomania and to make major errors of judgment.
   不幸的是，一个久经考验的政治法则是，一位领导人在位时间越长，就越可能变得妄自尊大，犯下重大的判断错误。
7. But this state of coexistence is gradually destroyed by London's persecutory paranoia and delusions of megalomania, with individualism highlighted in him.
   但是伦敦的迫害妄想狂和夸大妄想狂却把这种共存状态渐渐打破了，个人主义最终占据上风。

noun

1. a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur