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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chemist's shop in Bramblehurst could not boast half so many.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man's cub among her chil-dren?'
-- They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is for-gotten.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- continued Magua, tearing aside the slight calico that very imperfectly concealed his painted breast; 'here are scars given by knives and bullets of these a warrior may boast before his nation; but the gray-head has left marks on the back of the Huron chief that he must hide like a squaw, under this painted cloth of the whites.'
-- I never read but in one, and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need much schooling; though I may boast that of forty long and hard-working years.'
-- At length he raised his eyes, glistening with a father's fond-ness, and exclaimed: 'They are a pair of excellent girls, Heyward, and such as any one may boast of.'
-- What say you, Chingachgook,' he added, in Delaware; 'shall the Hurons boast of this to their women when the deep snows come?'
-- Are the Mingoes upon us in earnest, or is it only one of those reptiles who hang upon the skirts of a war-party, to scalp the dead, go in, and make their boast among the squaws of the valiant deeds done on the pale faces?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was sentenced to penal servitude, and yet she formed such views of life and her place in it that she could find reasons for self-approval and even boast before people of her condition.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the stockade and boast of my achievements.
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