egotism
egotism 英 ['eɡətɪzəm] 美 [ˈiɡəˌtɪzəm, ˈɛɡə-]
n. 自负；自我中心
名词复数:egotisms
- If you think that there's nothing better than being you, then you're full of egotism, a word for an inflated sense of self-importance.
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- n. 自负；自我中心
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1. Personal utterance was only egotism.
个人言语的表达不过是自我中心主义罢了。
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2. Vanity, egotism, and pride – they all hide a subtle unhappiness, a cleverly disguised animosity.
虚荣、自负、骄傲，这些都暗含着一种微妙的不快，一种巧妙伪装的敌意。
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3. Long-windedness -- in a presentation or an e-mail (who knew that success tips from Abraham Lincoln would extend into the digital era?) -- signals pretentiousness and egotism.
不论是讲演还是邮件（谁知道林肯的成功秘诀居然在数字时代也有用），天马行空的长篇大论只说明自负和自我中心。
- egotism (n.) 1714, "too frequent use of 'I'," from ego + -ism. First used by Joseph Addison, who credits the term to "Port-Royalists" who used it in reference to obtrusive use of first person singular pronoun in writing, hence "talking too much about oneself." Meaning "self-conceit, selfishness" is from 1800. The -t- is abnormal, perhaps by influence of dogmatism.
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