You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

多亏你使我明白过来，我既然认定一位小姐值得我去博她欢心，我又一味对她自命不凡，那是万万办不到的。”

" But, " said Ada, " The computer should never have any pretensions to originate anything."

“但是，”艾达说，“计算机永远不应该有任何自命不凡的想法来创造任何东西。”

" Ay—Cora! we are talking of your pretensions to Miss Munro, are we not, sir" ?

“啊——科拉！我们是在谈论你对芒罗小姐的虚伪， 不是吗，先生” ？

He was pleased to sneer at their pretensions to omniscience, and quite willing to pit himself against them.

他很高兴地嘲笑他们自称无所不知， 并且非常愿意与他们作对。

" But, " said Ada, " The computer should never have any pretensions to originate anything." She meant, think creatively.

“但是，”艾达说，“计算机永远不应该有任何自命不凡的想法。”她的意思是，创造性地思考。

'Perhaps there was enough truth in his extravagant pretensions to enable him to do something that we can hardly imagine'.

“也许他夸大其词的谎言中有足够的真实性， 使他能够做出我们难以想象的事情” 。

He will, I think, Elfride, feel now that my pretensions to your hand are anything but the dream of a silly boy not worth rational consideration'.

我想，Elfride，他现在会觉得我对你的求婚根本不是一个不值得理性考虑的傻孩子的梦想。

I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased'.

当初我向你求婚，以为你一定会答应。多亏你使我明白过来，我既然认定一位小姐值得我去博得她的欢心，我又一味对她自命不凡，那是万万办不到的。"

For the first time in her life this soul, which was afraid of everything, was moved by an interest which was alien to its own pretensions to rank and superiority.

这个害怕一切的灵魂，生平第一次被一种与其自命不凡的地位和优越感格格不入的兴趣所感动。

The better to cloak his transgression, He redoubled his pretensions to the semblance of virtue, and never appeared more devoted to Heaven as since He had broken through his engagements.

为了更好地掩饰自己的过犯，他加倍伪装成美德的假象，而且自从他解除契约以来，他似乎从未像现在这样对天堂更加忠诚。

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of govermnent, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

几乎在所有情况下，恐惧都是一种可怜的政府工具，特别是不应该用来对付任何有最小的独立自命的人的秩序。

'I am not a moral sort of fellow, ' he said, 'and I never make any pretensions to the character of a moral sort of fellow. I am as immoral as need be.

“我不是一个有道德的人，”他说，“我从不假装自己是一个有道德的人。我需要的不道德。

As he managed Madame's estates, he spent hours with her in Monsieur's study; he was in constant fear of being compromised, had a great regard for the magistracy and some pretensions to learning.

当他管理夫人的庄园时，他会在先生的书房里陪她几个小时。他一直害怕被妥协，非常尊重治安法官，并且有些自命不凡。

A young Nobleman, of the very first quality, took it into his head that Elvira had some pretensions to Beauty—As to pretensions, in truth, She had always enough of THEM; But as to Beauty....!

一位出身名门的年轻贵族认为埃尔韦拉对美貌有些矫揉造作——至于矫揉造作， 事实上，她总是受够了。 但至于美… … ！

I knew I could make no pretensions to her, nor did I offer any, that is, as far as it was possible, in the presence of so much loveliness, not to pant for its enjoyment.

我知道我不能对她提出任何要求， 也没有提出任何要求， 也就是说，在可能的情况下，在如此多的可爱面前， 不要为享受它而喘息。

Yet to a dispassionate observer, his pretensions to Elfride, though rather premature, were far from absurd as marriages go, unless the accidental proximity of simple but honest parents could be said to make them so.

然而，对于一个冷静的观察者来说，他对 Elfride 的自负虽然还为时过早，但随着婚姻的发展，这远非荒谬，除非可以说简单而诚实的父母偶然接近使他们如此。

Any stranger would consider her a silly being, whose head was turned by her pretensions to rank and property; but she is in reality even more ridiculous, the daughter of a mere magistrate's clerk from this neighbourhood.

任何陌生人都会认为她是一个愚蠢的人， 她的头脑被她对地位和财产的自负所吸引。其实更可笑的是， 她是这区区区一个县令书记的女儿。