Not quite two years ago, oil was $10 a barrel and the cartel was on the brink of collapse. Now the oil price is well above $30 a barrel, and it shows little sign of coming down. But history warns against such hubris .

不到两年前，石油价格为10美元一桶，欧佩克还面临崩溃的边缘。现在油价已达30美元一桶，并且没有丝毫下降的迹象。但是历史告诉他们不能盲目乐观。

But the gods are offended by hubris

但是，极度的高傲自信开罪了神灵。

But history warns against such hubris

但是历史告诉他们不能盲目乐观。

The very hubris of French claims alarmed the other powers

法国贪婪的胃口使其他大国惊恐不安。

||1: As well as a weak economy, there are potential sources of disruption. ||2: New banking licences may be awarded to politically connected industrialists. And Indian banking is due for a bout of consolidation. ||3: Both events may be a year or two away, but will still probably come under the watch of Mr Kotak, who owns 41% of the firm. ||4: At 53 he has no plans to retire, and wants his family to retain a chunky stake in the long term. ||5: That may be no bad thing. ||6: Continuity is part of the magic formula. ||7: And, unlike some well-known Wall Street firms, there is little sign of hubris . ||8: “All of us have middle-class values,” says Mr Kotak. “We never wanted to be grandiose.”

||1:除经济疲软意外，还有其他的潜在不利因素。||2:比如有政治背景的企业家或将更容易得到新的银行协议，而印度银行也将掀起一阵合并潮。||3:这两大事件很可能在一、二年后发生，但也可能发生在控制公司41%股权的Kotak先生眼皮底下。||4:现年53岁的他不仅当下没有任何理由退休，更在长期希望他的家庭能够保留相当的股份。||5:这也许不是坏事。||6:魔法配方中就有一个环节叫做“持续性”。||7:并且，不同于华尔街知名企业的是，这里没有狂妄自大的苗头。||8:Kotak先生说：“我们所有人都有中产阶级价值，而且从没想过自吹自擂。”

||1: Mr Rajan has also been right about India. ||2: In 2010, as hubris in the country soared, he warned that “growth can never be taken for granted” and that “self-delusion is the first step towards disaster.” ||3: As he prepares to succeed Duvvuri Subbarao at the helm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in September that caution seems prescient. ||4: India’s economy is in a funk and it faces a balance-of-payments scare. ||5: The rupee has fallen by 12% against the dollar in the past three months.

||1:拉詹对印度的看法也是正确的。||2:2010年，随着该国自大情绪的高涨，他警告说“增长永远不能被视为理所当然”，并且“自欺欺人是走向灾难的第一步。”||3: 当他准备在9月份接替杜武里·苏巴拉奥（Duvvuri Subbarao）担任印度储备银行（RBI）行长时，这种谨慎似乎是有先见之明的。 ||4:印度经济陷入恐慌，面临国际收支平衡恐慌。||5:过去三个月，卢比兑美元汇率下跌了12%。

||1: Mr Dower discusses his surprise at hearing his own work cited after 9/11, when American officials evoked the post-war occupation of Japan as a model for post-invasion Iraq. ||2: President George W. Bush should have seen that Japan provided “no model” for occupying Mesopotamia, Mr Dower wrote in a strikingly prescient 2002 New York Times op-ed, reproduced here. ||3: “To rush to war without seriously imagining all its consequences, including its aftermath, is not realism but a terrible hubris .”

||1:在9.11事件之后，美国官员援引了道尔的作品，要求以战后占领日本的模式在入侵伊拉克之后占领该国。道尔表示他听到这一消息以后有些错愕。||2:他在2002年《纽约时报》的社论专栏里极有先见之明地写道：乔治·W·布什总统应该认识到，日本不能为攻占美索不达米亚“提供模式”。||3:“不认真考虑战争的后果、包括可能带来的创伤就匆匆发动战争，这不是现实主义，而是一种可怕的傲慢狂妄。”

||1:The novel begins in December 2007 and ends a year later, after the unwieldy collapse of Lehman Brothers.||2:This is a London of swagger and hubris , and the story is cluttered with more characters than Roger Yount, the banker protagonist, knows ways to spend money.||3:Each character lives on Pepys Road or orbits it, and their stories are fraught with a sense of impending loss.

||1:这本小说的故事开始于2007年12月，一年后结束在雷曼兄弟公司棘手的倒闭之后。||2:这本书讲的是伦敦的狂妄自大与傲慢，书中除了擅长花钱的主角罗杰·扬特外，还挤满了其它众多的人物。||3:每个人物都住在佩皮斯路，或是围绕着佩皮斯路而存在，他们的故事都充满了即将失去的感觉。

HUBRIS is always dangerous. In 1977 smallpox was eradicated and—an accidental infection in a British laboratory a year later aside—that claim has stood the test of time.

骄傲自满通常是危险的行为。1977年，人类宣称消灭了天花（若将一年后英国实验室发生的一次偶然天花感染排除在外的话），这份声明经历了时间的考验。

One worry, Smith says, is that the inflows risk encouraging emerging policymakers’ hubris , removing the pressure for reform.

Smith指出，其中一个隐忧就是，这些资金流入可能会让新兴国家决策高层自满傲慢，降低了改革的压力。

not all readers are ready for a glimpse at the appalling hubris and harrowing self-doubt that beset most writers.

并非所有的读者都做好了准备窥探作家的内心——他们大部分惊世骇俗地自大同时伤心欲绝地自卑。

Whether this is hubris or homage, the display is bound to attract thousands of new visitors to this marvellous place.

不管是傲慢还是尊重，这次展览必将吸引成千上万的新访客来到这个神奇的地方。

To rush to war without seriously imagining all its consequences, including its aftermath, is not realism but a terrible hubris

不认真考虑战争的后果、包括可能带来的创伤就匆匆发动战争，这不是现实主义，而是一种可怕的傲慢狂妄。

Unlike great rock bands, he does not think they will be destroyed by their own hubris .

不像那些伟大的摇滚乐队，威尔曼认为他们不会被自己的桀骜不驯所摧毁。

From the Tower of Babel to Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Tower, an uncanny historical correlation exists between building height and hubris .

从“巴别塔”（TowerofBabel）到吉隆坡的“双子星塔”（PetronasTowers），建筑物高度与狂妄之间存在一种神秘的历史关联。

Mr Das has a keen eye for an anecdote, and the early chapters give the reader plenty of chances to chuckle at the hubris he reveals.

达斯热衷于引经据典。在开头几章揭露金融人士自大嘴脸时，那些谐趣的轶事很可能逗得你咯咯发笑。

But as oil prices fell and Russia’s economy started contracting, this hubris became harder to maintain.

但是，当石油价格下滑，俄罗斯经济开始收缩时，这种自满情绪就很难维系了。

But hubris and nationalism among some Chinese, and unnecessary fear of decline among some Americans make it difficult to assure this future.

但是，某些中国人的狂妄自大和民族主义情绪，以及某些美国人对本国衰落不必要的担心，为这一前景增添了许多变数。

But the driving factor is hubris .

但主要驱动因素还是骄傲自大。

Certainly, with hindsight there is hubris in the Review’s full title.

当然，以事后聪明的观点看，远东经济评论这个全名有过于傲慢之嫌。

There was a hubris that was unreal: the climate and the culture and the unbridled optimism. There was arrogance that anything was possible.

当时有一种不真实的傲慢气氛：气候、文化和不受拘束的乐观主义。人们傲慢地认为，凡事皆有可能。

Germany’s friends no longer worry much that pride will ever become hubris again.

德国的盟国绝不需担心这种荣誉感会使德国再次成为一个骄傲自大的国家。

Number one was just extreme hubris and self-confidence.

第一因为极度的傲慢自大和自信。

Leverage becomes associated with hubris and ruin, rather than a short-cut to growth.

杠杆开始与狂妄和毁灭联系在了一起，而不再是增长的捷径。

In retrospect it is clear the country was living in a bubble of hubris and unearned kudos.

回顾往事，那时国家正生活在一种过分自大的泡沫和不劳而获的荣誉之中显得十分清楚。

Then there is the hubris .

接着还有那种骄傲自大的态度。

Both must recognise that to call one standard of liberty the universal value is hubris ;

两国都必须承认，让一种自由标准成为普遍价值观，是傲慢自大的表现；

On the other, mergers may have been the children of hubris , as chief executives sought scale for its own sake.

另一方面，合并会滋生傲慢情绪，因为公司高层会为了自身的利益而盲目追求规模。

Another body amid the countless fatalities in a senseless hubris and duel in which there are no innocents.

另一个躯体在数不尽的灾祸之中在一个没有意义的蔑视之中并且在这场斗争中没有无辜。

Since every boom contains the seeds of the next bust, the best global growth in a generation created hubris , ensuring a major downturn.

每一场繁荣都孕育着下一轮萧条，一代人以来最佳的全球增长滋生了骄傲自大的情绪，从而使一场重大衰退变成了必然。