1. To make pretense of dignity, assume airs
你无法继续伪装下去了。
2. But we all know there are many intellectuals who fancy themselves very learned and assume airs of erudition without realizing that such airs are bad and harmful and hinder their own progress.
但是我们晓得，有许多知识分子，他们自以为很有知识，大摆其知识架子，而不知道这种架子是不好的，是有害的，是阻碍他们前进的。
3. Thou hast not forgotten, I suppose, that those who assume arrogant airs in bestowing their praise or blame on others, are such as they are at bed and at board, and thou hast not forgotten what they do, and what they avoid and what they pursue, and how they steal and how they rob, not with hands and feet, but with their most valuable part, by means of which there is produced, when a man chooses, fidelity, modesty, truth, law, a good daemon?
我设想，你没有忘记吧，那些在褒贬别人时态度傲慢的人是怎样的人，他们是在床上或船上的人；你没有忘记吧，没忘记他们所做的、所避开的、所追求的，以及他们如何偷、如何抢，不是用手脚，而是用他们最宝贵的部分。当一个人愿意时，本可以用这一部分产生出忠实、谦虚、真诚、守法和一个好的守护神。
4. American over modest look upon as the hypocritical pronoun, says English if one is modest about self talking not good, proceed to tell fluent English, American person that can think that he is to affirm with self's lips but deny in self's heart, assume airs of importance.
美国人把过谦视为虚伪的代名词，如果一个自谦说英语讲得不好，接着又说出一口流畅英语，美国人会认为他是个口是心非，装腔作势的人。
5. He began to put on side and to assume airs of authority.
他渐渐摆起架子来，装出一副威风凛凛的样子。