pontificate

n.教皇的职位，主教的地位

vi.装作教皇的说话

verb

1. 自以为是地谈论；目空一切地议论
   to give your opinions about sth in a way that shows that you think you are right

noun

1. 教皇职务（或在任时期）
   the official position or period in office of a pope

n. 教皇的职位 vi. 执行教皇职务；武断地表示意见

1. Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards.
   政客喜欢自以为是地谈论准则的废弛。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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）。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。