To speak tediously or sententiously; moralize. 说教冗长地或言简意赅地说；说教
To speak tediously or sententiously;moralize. 说教：冗长地或言简意赅地说；
Part of the fun is the way he condenses the work of others who have approached the subject pompously or sententiously. “趣事的一部分”是本书作者的工作方式：别人对“步行”这个话题进行了深入或粗浅的研究，而他则将这些人的工作浓缩了起来。
So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase. 而在21世纪，无论通过怎么样的方式，中国以及其邻居将决定亚洲重新领导各项人类活动对后工业化的世界，包括美国，意味着什么。
'He should have thought of the consequences before he acted,' she concluded sententiously. 她最後以说教的口吻说: ‘他应该先想到後果然後再做.;’
“You should have thought of the consequences before you acted,” she concluded sententiously. 她最后以说教的口吻说：“你应该先想到后果然后再做。”
