The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.

不切实际的穿越沙漠计划已成泡影。

The sad truth is that not one of Tim's grandiose plans has even begun.

可悲的是，蒂姆那些华而不实的计划没有一项付诸实施。

This year will be particularly grandiose.

今年仪式将尤其盛大。

In 2011 grandiose strategy will be out of fashion.

在2011年，浮夸的策略会过时。

He makes grandiose claims with a mixture of mirth and sincerity.

他会带着欢笑和真挚要求巨额索赔。

Truman didn't allow MacArthur time to stage a grandiose resignation.

杜鲁门没有给麦克阿瑟庄严辞职的机会。

However, these grandiose dreams soon gave way to more practical concerns.

然而，这些宏大的梦想很快让位给了更加实际的考虑。

“Business Fixer” is too slangy and “Business Transformer” is too grandiose.

“企业修理师”太俚语化，“企业变革者”又太过庄重。

Over the decades, he has tried to remake the world in his own grandiose image.

几十年以来，他一直尝试以心目中的宏伟蓝图重塑世界。

He could sense that this man, sixty-plus years old, was given to grandiose tactics.

他可以感觉到这个男人，六十多岁的样子，被习惯于宏大的战术。

But for all his grandiose pretensions, he is a buffoon-and a particularly nasty one.

但尽管有如天高般的自负，他也只不过是一个小丑——而且是最下流的那种。

His haughty, arrogant and grandiose worth of himself, is very embarrassing to deal with.

他傲慢，他自大，他夸耀自己的价值，他让你觉得尴尬且难以应付。

Indonesians have known about the empty stadiums and grandiose governors' mansions for a while.

一开始印尼人民看到空空荡荡的体育场馆，和'宏伟的州长官邸。

I do not want to sound grandiose, but I sometimes feel I want to agree to make the questioner happy.

我不想让人听起来显得浮夸，但有时我感觉我想使提出问题的人开心罢了。

By early 2009, travelers will have the opportunity to stay at the grandiose Poseidon Undersea Resort.

到2009年初，旅客们将有机会入住壮观的海神海中度假酒店。

Hayashi apparently wasn't so concerned with such grandiose thinking when he pitched the idea in 2007.

Hayashi 2007年在推销这个创意的时候显然不关心这个想法是否浮夸。

Back in Portugal, I was hired by an engineering company for a grandiose project to remodel all our cement plants.

回到葡萄牙后，我受聘于一家工程公司，参与了一项宏大的工程：改装所有水泥厂。

Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.

哈伯德的确装腔作势，但如果仅仅只是给他贴上骗子的标签，那么就忽视了他性格的复杂度。

Today this approach goes by the slightly less grandiose name of climate engineering, and it is looking more practical.

如今取而代之是一个不那么冠冕堂皇的名称，气候工程学，这听起来似乎更可行。

Today it is the wealthiest enclave in the country, with gaudy, grandiose mansions that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

如今它是这个国家最富裕的地区，拥有价值数十万美元，华丽而宏伟的高楼大宅。

Sometimes it may mean that yourecognize that something does not live up to the grandiose hype butstill has useful things to offer.

有时，它可能意味着yourecognize的东西不辜负宏伟的炒作butstill已提供有用的东西。

What Gabre-Madhin is proposing may sound grandiose – she wants to set up a commodities exchange, similar to the Chicago Board of Trade.

Madhin的计划听起来很宏伟，她想要设立一个商品交易所，就像芝加哥商品交易所。

The second is "grandiose exhibitionism," being pompous, wanting to show off, and having an exaggerated sense of one's capabilities and talents.

第二种是“好表现行为”，这会让人变得华而不实，想要出风头，对自己的能力和天赋有夸大性的认知。