holier than thou

同根派生

英汉例句

• Honest doubt is better than in a pious fraud.
  诚实的怀疑胜过伪善的信任。
• What could be more amusing than the public exposure of hypocritical sinners?
  但更有意思的，当然是看着伪善的罪人被曝光。
• There is perhaps no better demtration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
  也许这张表现我们的世界是如何渺小的照片，是人类愚蠢自负的最好证明。
• None of Russia's problems is unsolvable, but all require strategy and transparency rather than overconfident rhetoric.
  没有一个俄罗斯的问题是不能解决的，但是所有这些都需要有策略及透明度，而不是自负的夸夸其谈。