brag是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 吹嘘， 夸口，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You used to brag that you were a better man with hands and spear than Menelaus.
-- I too, if I will, can brag and talk unseemly.
-- Hector feared him not and answered, 'Son of Peleus, think not that your words can scare me as though I were a child; I too if I will can brag and talk unseemly; I know that you are a mighty war-rior, mightier by far than I, nevertheless the issue lies in the lap of heaven whether I, worse man though I be, may not slay you with my spear, for this too has been found keen ere now.'
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：
-- The Huron shall never brag in his tribe that he has a foot which leaves no print.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you make a brag of your honesty to me,' saidthe tinker, 'I'll knock your brains out.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ignatius Nikiforovitch said that it was the height of inconsistency, foolhardiness and pride; that such an act could only be explained, if at all, by a desire to be odd, to have something to brag about, and to make people talk about one's self.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You look very presentable now," she said, "and I don't think anyone will suspect you've been up to your tricksunless you brag about them.
-- And have to listen to them brag about howpopular their daughters were.
-- He didn't even die in a fine glow of gallantry inbattle, so she could brag about him.
-- Gerald's letter was so full of brag and bluster as to how the Yankees had been driven from the railroad that onewould have thought he personally had accomplished the feat, single handed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For mercy's sake don't brag about your experiences!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
-- I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Pr脙娄torians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You've done nothing but brag around ever since you've been here."
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