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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel muttered in a tone of vexation: "That unlucky document!It may boast of having half-crazed a dozen peoples' wits!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, Nastasia Philipovna's beauty became a thing known to all the town; but not a single man could boast of anything more than his own admiration for her; and this reputation of hers, and her wit and culture and grace, all confirmed Totski in the plan he had now prepared.
-- 'Besides, you need not mind about lecturing us; you have nothing to boast of.
-- A nice sort of perfection to throw up a prince and a million and a half of roubles in order to be able to boast of the fact afterwards!
-- You wish perhaps to boast of the cleverness of your investigation, to cry up your talents as detective?
-- 'He actually seems to boast of it!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven-gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Jove, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honour with us.'
-- There was no man of all the many Danaans who could then boast that he had driven his horses over the trench and gone forth to fight sooner than the son of Tydeus; long be-fore any one else could do so he slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Agelaus the son of Phradmon.
-- Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot.
-- So-cus, hero that he was, made all speed to help him, and when he was close to Ulysses he said, 'Far-famed Ulysses, insatia-ble of craft and toil, this day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of Hippasus and stripped them of their armour, or you shall fall before my spear.'
-- Therefore boast as you will among the immortals that you worsted me in fair fight.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old woman you mentioned, sir ''The old woman I mentioned, ma'am,' said Bounderby, cutting the matter short, as it was nothing to boast about, 'is not laid hold of; but, she may take her oath she will be, if that is any satisfaction to her villainous old mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The habit, too, of seeking some sort of recompense in the discontented boast of being disappointed, is a habit fraught with degeneracy.
-- Perhaps I might say better, and yet make no boast of it.'
-- My husband himself, as is well known, formerly had a very dear sister who was not in law his sister, but who was universally beloved and respected 'I saw directly that they had taken me in for the sake of the dead woman, whoever she was, and to have that boast of me and advantage of me; I saw, in the nurse's knowledge of it, an encouragement to goad me as she had done; and I saw, in the children's shrinking away, a vague impression, that I was not like other people.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a fortune as the Count antonio.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.'
-- I do not like to boast of my own child, but to be sure, Jane one does not often see anybody better looking.
-- I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins's character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state.'
-- Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.
-- Wickham' by each of them; and in the mean time, she went after dinner to show her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do not boast of it, however," said Elinor, "for it is injustice in both of you.
-- "I am afraid it is but too true," said Marianne; "but why should you boast of it?"
-- He could only obtain a promise of their calling at the Park within a day or two, and then left them in amazement at their indifference, to walk home and boast anew of their attractions to the Miss Steeles, as he had been already boasting of the Miss Steeles to them.
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