navel-gazing

Are you some sort of navel-gazing , no-fun , mopey type?

难道你是那种目光如豆, 又消沉, 又毫无乐趣可言的类型?

Does the appointment of Mr Van Rompuy mean that the EU has abandoned all aspirations of global leadership, and that another decade of navel-gazing beckons?

范龙佩的任命是否意味着欧盟已经放弃了对全球领导地位的全部渴望，另一个只顾自己的十年即将到来？

Which are working to chip away at the navel-gazing literary culture of Anglo-American letters.

他们致力于逐渐改变弥漫于英美文学圈子里的如井底之蛙般的风气。

One must not imagine Kant as a leisurely scholar with lots of time on his hands for navel-gazing and beautiful thoughts.

人们肯定觉得康德是个悠闲的学者手头有太多的时间安神养性、陶醉在自己美妙的思想中。

In other words, navel gazing is hardwired into the human libido.

换言之, 盯着肚脐看是人类的性欲本能.

He poked fun at literary navel-gazing and took repeated shots at Amazon's chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos.

他嘲笑文学界目光狭窄，并一再向亚马逊的首席执行官杰弗里·P·贝佐斯（Jeffrey P.Bezos）开火。