While the bag used to be a strong status signal, now it signals inauthenticity.

虽然这个包曾经是一种强烈身份标志，但现在它发出了不真实。

He could maybe try to be cool and woke or try for nerd chic, but Biden knew the political perils of inauthenticity.

他也许可表现得冷静清醒，或者呆子式时髦，但拜登知道不真实政治风险。

And to accept that, that on a fundamental level there's an inauthenticity, would crush my self-esteem — that is not living up to my value.

接受这一点， 即在基本层面上存在不真实性， 会粉碎我自尊——那不符合我价值。