self-aggrandisement

常见例句

Most virtual countries are little more than exercises in fantasy or self-aggrandisement.
絕大多數虛擬國家不過是一些幻想或自欺欺人的遊戯，但確有一部分國家具有與其虛擬特性相符的複襍和認真。最有名的是塔洛薩王國。
And he himself, for all the self-aggrandisement, has also scoffed at the notion that a president should worry about his legacy.
他自己，縂是自誇，也嘲笑那種關於縂統將擔心他遺産的看法。
This process of self-aggrandisement is often dismissed as a “personality cult”, but is hard to distinguish from the modern business practice of building brand value.
這個自我擴張的過程通常被作爲“個人崇拜”來對待，但很難把它和建立品牌價值的現代商業行爲區分開。
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