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1. For a party whose cockier strategists have boasted of a “permanent Republican majority”, this is quite a come-down.

共和党自大的战略家夸下海口“共和党是国会的永久多数”，这下差不多要事与愿违了。

2. And Little Sunny becomes cockier every time he hears that.

小太阳听了就更加神气了。

3. By contrast, a commander of the jihadist group known as the Shabab (meaning “Youth”) struck a cockier note, promising that foreign troops would be killed;

相比之下，伊斯兰圣战组织“青年党”的一名指挥官却发出了粗野强硬的宣言，他誓言要杀光所有的外国军队；

4. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.

说句老实话、从来没有一个孩子像彼得这样爱翘尾巴。