当地绝望的家庭,迷信于拉奎那自我吹嘘的超能力,向她祈求帮助。
Local families, desperate and aware of Lakwena's self-aggrandizing claims to supernatural power, begged her for help.
我向她解释说,开当铺不过是我的意志和理智堕落的一种表现,是个人自怨自艾、自我吹嘘的想法。
I made clear to her that my money-lending had been simply the degradation of my will and my mind, my personal idea of self-castigation and self-exaltation.
我讨厌那种正义凛然的自我克制行为,人们这样做只不过是为了增加点自我吹嘘的谈资罢了什么保健排毒,什么弓箭狩猎、什么重守童贞等等。
I hate those ACTS of righteous self-denial that people do just so they can brag about them health cleanses, bow hunting, reclaiming your virginity.
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