Egomania can be such a bore.

与一个自恋狂交往,有时候真没意思.

So you just try to ride the egomania when it comes and enjoy it, and then slide through the idea of fraud.

于是，在自我迷恋出现时，你只是试着驾驭它、享受它，然后就渐渐开始觉得自己是在欺骗别人。

Worse still, I was never able to distinguish his optimism from plain egomania; I would not have been surprised to hear him announce that he had invented a better tree.

更糟的是，我没法辨别，这些究竟是他的乐观主义，或仅仅是狂妄自大而已。 所以，即便是他宣布他发明了一种更牛逼的树木，我也不会惊讶。