pontificate

Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards .

政客喜欢自以为是地谈论准则的废弛。

Experts pontificate about the supposed problem , the public is made anxious , police are given more powers , and everyone goes hunting for Mods and Rockers ( or whoever is the folk devil du jour ) .

专家自以为是地谈论着所谓的问题，公众焦虑不安，警察得到更大权力，所有人都开始搜寻摩登派和摇滚派（或者是当时的民间恶魔）。

Pope Formosus died after a pontificate of four and a half years .

教皇福尔摩苏斯上任四年半后去世。

A man pontificated that all good ideas are simple .

有一个人武断地发表意见说一切好主意都是简单的。

He sat there pontificating about the legal system although it was clear that he knew very little .

他坐在那儿发表他对法制的高论，虽然他对此一窍不通。

The new professor always pontificates .

新来的教授老是教条式谈论。

Social mobility is an issue about which politicians love to pontificate but about which we actually know surprisingly little .

社会流动性是政治人士喜欢夸夸其谈的一个问题，但实际上我们对它的了解出奇地少。

During the pontificate of Nicholas II an interesting struggle began in Milan .

尼古拉二世任期内，米兰开始了一场有趣的斗争。

The sadly brief pontificate of Pope John Paul I.

教皇约翰保罗一世那短得可怜的任期。

People who pontificate are usually unholy bores .

以命令的口气说话的人通常都是邪恶的无赖。

Pope Benedict has been healthy during his pontificate , keeping to a busy schedule and traveling around the world .

教皇本笃在职期间似乎身体状况非常健康，日程安排非常紧凑，并对全世界进行访问。

Elsewhere , officials took steps to definitively end Benedict 's pontificate , destroying his ring , seals and stamps .

另一方面，相关人员正在处理本笃的交接事宜，包括销毁他的教皇戒指，印章和图章。

Pope Francis 's forthcoming encyclical on climate change and nature looks set to be one of the defining statements of his pontificate .

教皇方济各（PopeFrancis）即将发表的关于气候变化和自然的通谕，看来将成为其教皇任期内具有代表性的声明之一。

Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the final Sunday blessing of his pontificate in St. Peter 's Square .

教皇本笃十六世在圣彼得广场为教皇宝座送上了最后的祝福。

Grice is a strategist who 's happier quoting from history books than pontificating on the future direction of the FTSE .

格赖斯更乐于援引历史书籍，而不是武断地判言富时指数的未来方向。

Oxford University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world : professors have been pontificating and students have been snoozing since the 12th century .

牛津是英语世界里最古老的大学：早在十二世纪，教授们就开始在台上威严地授课，而过去的学生们在台下偷偷打盹。

Start seriously courting the journalists , tastemakers , and celebrities that are using and / or pontificating about G + .

开始认真对待那些正在使用或是对Google+发表一些言论的记者、潮人和名人们。

Pitkowsky and trauner are more likely to read 10-ks over the weekend than pontificate about global economic themes .

皮考斯基和特劳纳更有可能在周末研读上市公司年报，而不会就全球经济问题夸夸其谈。

The Faith Council in my view is not a group of people who come together and pontificate several times a year and put a sheet for the President at the end of the year .

在我看来，信仰委员会不是，一群人聚在一起，一年发表几次高论，然后在年末呈交给总统一页纸。

One commonly hears Tokyo cab drivers pontificate on the parallels : both Britain and Japan are islands stuck off the edge of a great continental landmass .

经常听到东京的哥堂而皇之地发表类似言论：英国和日本一样，都是偏安广袤大陆一隅的岛国。

We love to speculate who will win and after the announcements , we exchange wild conspiracy theories , talk about the painful snubs and pontificate on whether or not the recipients deserve the honors .

我们喜欢猜测谁能赢得该奖并且在宣布得主后，我们彼此广泛的交换阴谋论、谈论候选人落选的痛苦，并且高高在上的评论得奖者是否应该获此殊荣。

The funds that governments provide to support innovation are all too often appropriated by large companies that are better at forming committees to pontificate about what the global village will want in the future than they are at assessing what their customers want today .

政府提供的创新资金常常被大公司占用。与评估当下的消费者需求相比，这些公司更善于成立委员会，围绕未来地球村的需求夸夸其谈。

Best supporting actor : Let 's be honest : One man whose entire year has been a story about other people 's interests is the ousted president of Honduras , Manuel Zelaya . For all his posturing and pontificating , he was never running the show .

最佳男配角：实事求是的说，过去一年里有个人的境遇一直关系的却是其他人的利益，这就是洪都拉斯遭驱逐总统塞拉亚。