It is unkind, and, to speak plainly, has a touch of charlatanism in it.
这样做很残忍，坦白地说，简直有欺骗的味道。
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As another master, Stendhal, remarked in his autobiography "Memoirs of an Egotist," "Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and even of out-and-out charlatanism."