| 英语单词 | conceit |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [kən'siːt] 美 [kən'siːt] |
| 中文释义 | n.自负;个人观点;幻想;字字珠玑;好评 |
| 英语例句 | (1) This young man is full of conceit. (2) He jotted down his conceits of his idle hours. (3) I don't have much conceit of his poems. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这个年轻人非常自负。 (2) 他记下闲暇时自己想到的一些念头。 (3) 我对他的诗作没有什么好评。 |
| vocabulary简明 | 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. |
| vocabulary扩展 | 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. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]自负;自高自大 Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great. [also [disapproval]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](文学中)巧妙的比喻,别出心裁的对比 In literature, a conceit is a clever or unusual metaphor or comparison.
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