Front | conceit |
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Pron | [kәn'si:t] |
Back | 【CONCEIT】 Her conceit about her beauty angered many people. 他对自己的美丽感到自负,这惹怒了许多人。 【重点词汇】 conceit n. 自负 同: pride |
Vocab | conceitthe trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
If you’re always boasting and can’t stop talking about yourself, you have that character flaw known as conceit. Your friends — if you have any — may also complain about your arrogance, vanity, and egotism. A conceit can also be an artistic device — probably a little forced — like the plot of a movie built on the conceit of everything that happens being foretold in song. You might find an architectural conceit in a Baroque palace, where you think you’re looking down a long hallway lined with columns, but when you get closer you see that it's really a mural painted in perspective so that the columns only seem to disappear in the distance. All forms of 'conceit' will appear on average once every 914 pages. conceit |
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