1. A young, unemployed film-maker's 20-minute internet parody of Chen Kaige's latest movie The Promise has delighted China's online audiences and raised the hackles of the country's most prestigious - and pompous - film director.
一名年轻且没有固定工作的电影制作人通过剪辑影片《无极》制作了一部20分钟长的喜剧短篇，该短片既娱乐了中国众多的网民，同时也激怒了制作《无极》的大导演陈凯歌。
2. Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliché s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
人生并非格言组成，岂能靠美丽的辞章来妆点，默默中，有我对你最诚挚的祝福。
3. Cogsworth: you most certainly did not, you pompous pea-brain!
老克斯维斯：才不是你说的呢，你这个爱炫耀的笨蛋！
4. When the UN in 2000 set a millennial development goal of halving the percentage of humans living in extreme poverty by 2015, most people thought it was just pompous verbiage.
2000年，联合国制定了一个千年发展目标，计划到2015年将生活在极度贫困之中的人口比例减少一半。当时多数人认为，这只是一种夸大其词的空话。