We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this.
我们内心深处有一种迫切的需求，那就是对自己有良好的感觉，因此我们会自然地采用多种自我提升的策略来实现这一点。
Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others – all obviously statistical impossibilities.
社会心理学家已经积累了大量关于他们称之为“高于平均水平效应”或“虚假优越感”的研究，并证明例如，70%的人认为自己在领导力方面高于平均水平，93%的人认为自己在驾驶方面高于平均水平，85%的人认为自己在与他人相处方面高于平均水平——显然这些都是统计上的不可能现象。
We rose-tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations.
我们会美化自己的记忆，并让自己置身于能够肯定自我的情境中。
Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.
也许这正是我们探索星空的原因，仿佛在回应一种原始的召唤，以了解我们自己和真正的祖先家园。
We’ve disconnected ourselves from living with fire,” Balch says.
巴尔奇说："我们已经与火共处的生活方式断开了联系。"
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。