smugness

1. The pair were raising awareness of how horrid it is for children to be barefoot in African villages; in doing so they also raised even more awareness of the vanity and the smugness of well-shod corporate America.
   他们是在提醒人们儿童在非洲村庄赤脚走路的可怕性；他们这么做也让人们更加意识到，有好鞋穿的美国企业界人士是多么的虚荣和做作。
2. A smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure.
   表示蔑视或者自命不凡而不是愉快的微笑。
3. With Europe and the United States mired in economic stagnation, Latin American leaders can survey the world with a certain smugness.
   在欧洲和美国陷入经济停滞之际，拉美领导人可以带着某种沾沾自喜的神情眺望整个世界。
4. Once the foolhardy are teetering on the precipice, it is too late for smugness.
   一旦一些愚勇之士悬崖边命悬一线，自鸣得意为时已晚。
5. I detect a hint of I-told-you-so smugness about some of the gloomy advance commentary on Copenhagen.
   在一些有关哥本哈根会议的悲观先期评论中，我嗅到了一丝我早就说过了的自命不凡感。
6. I did't notice the lookof smugness on her face.
   我没注意到她那个沾沾自喜的神态。
7. It is enough to make a lesser nation smug – and there is certainly no shortage of smugness these days in China.
   这样的成绩足以让一个小国自鸣得意了，而在今天的中国，沾沾自喜的情绪当然不会少。

noun

1. an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction