夜郎自大 meaning in Chinese
ludicrous conceit of the king of yelang -- parochial arrogance; as cheeky as yelang, who thinks himself the equal of the son of heaven; be self-assertive; be sheer parochial arrogance; every dog's alien at home.; get too big for one's boots; get [become] too proud of onesself; ignorant presumption [boastfulness]; pass oneself off as an important person; play the great man; think no small beer of oneself; yelang people think their country is bigger than china -- ignorant boastfulness
Examples
- Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather than pedantic and portentous .
无论如何，要使它显得很随便，甚至滑稽可笑，而不要显得很迂腐，夜郎自大。 - He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat .
他样子挺英俊，可就是不讨人喜欢；长得结实粗壮，身子已经开始发胖，这个人夜郎自大，欺软怕硬。 - A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
公鸡在其粪堆上称雄。 （夜郎自大。 ） - Otherwise , the only result must be that one lose the vitality and be washed out from the market
如果夜郎自大，坐井观天，或是固步自封，抱残守缺，就会丧失生命力，被淘汰出局。 - 1 indeed , until the bubble burst and the public turned nasty at the start of the decade , the cult of the celebrity chief executive seemed to demand bossly narcissism , as evidence that a firm was being led by an all - conquering hero
事实上，直到泡沫破灭，本世纪初公众开始对此厌倦，公司行政领导热似乎需要夜郎自大，似乎整个公司都由无所不能的英雄所领导。