Opponents carp at her splurging 6.8 billion rupees ($139m) on a few acres of grass, some saplings and walls of self-aggrandising stonework.

玛雅瓦蒂的反对者指责其花费68亿卢比修建草地、栽植树苗并给扩张的石雕群修建围墙是一种浪费行为。

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Not to be too self-pitying (or self-aggrandising), but I hadn't really cared about a woman outside my family since Margie and I had hung up our phones in 1995.

虽然我不再怜悯自己，但是自从1995年与玛吉不再打电话以来，我从来没有这样关心过任何一个家庭以外的女人。

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Sometimes self-aggrandising, sometimes self-critical, Babur emerges from his autobiography as a real person, in a way no other great leader except Churchill does.

时而自吹自擂，时而自我批评，从他的自传里我们看到了一个真实的巴布尔，这种方式除了丘吉尔没有别的领导人采用过。

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Thus, even on their family excursions and evening promenades, Iraqis inhabit the defiant, militant and self-aggrandising world of their president.

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The European Parliament, self-aggrandising and mediocre, cannot fill the democratic deficit.

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After John returns in the evening bubbling with self-aggrandising chatter, he quickly falls prey to a ferocious case of sleep apnoea that exacerbates Charlotte's own case of jet lag and eventually leads to a series of accidental, then not so accidental, encounters with Bob in the bar.

ECONOMIST: Romance to die for