boast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 自夸; 自豪地拥有，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nothing to boast of,' said Miss Pross.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the latter there may be far more poetical natures than many an ac-knowledged poet, when examined more closely, could boast of; the difference only is, that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on which account he is able to retain the 50 Andersen's Fairy Talesfeeling and the thought till they can be embodied by means of words; a faculty which the others do not possess.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We know what the land's like--first-rate, yet there's not much of a crop to boast of.
-- "How is it, though you boast of your straightforwardness, you don't tell the truth?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Good boy!I thought you were going to pull that 'If you are a roughneck, I don't see why you think you've got to boast about it' stuff that Mart springs on me!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to go in for some examination, but it's only to talk and boast about it, it will go no further than that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I haven't much to boast of.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood in Meditation RegretBoldwood was tenant of what was called Little Weatherbury Farm, and his person was the nearest approach to aristocracy that this remoter quarter of the parish could boast of.
-- 'Tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there's people far past four-score a boast weak as water."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympa-thy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
-- Alas!Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
-- 'My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I im-proved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I com-prehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She uttered the word with an eager look, and with strong emphasis, and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it.
-- For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.
-- His boast that he had made me a gentleman, and that he had come to see me support the character on his ample resources, was made for me quite as much as for himself.
-- And that it was a highly agreeable boast to both of us, and that we must both be very proud of it, was a conclusion quite established in his own mind.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this king was very fond of money; and when he heard the miller's boast his greediness was raised, and he sent for the girl to be brought before him.
-- It was in vain that the poor maiden said that it was only a silly boast of her father, for that she could do no such thing as spin straw into gold: the chamber door was locked, and she was left alone.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
-- As to their military affairs, they boast that the king's army consists of a hundred and seventy-six thousand foot, and thirty-two thousand horse: if that may be called an army, which is made up of tradesmen in the several cities, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward.
-- Detractors are pleased to think it improb-able, that so illustrious a person should descend to give so great a mark of distinction to a creature so inferior as I. Nei-ther have I forgotten how apt some travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received.
-- But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they pos-sess, than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite in Mr. Bounderby's gusty way to boast to all his world that he didn't care about your highly connected people, but that if his wife Tom Gradgrind's daughter did, she was welcome to their company.
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