conceit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 自负， 自高自大，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her eyes were, it seemed, opened; she felt all the difficulty of maintaining herself without hypocrisy and self- conceit on the pinnacle to which she had wished to mount.
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：
-- No, no; your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, out-runs that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He cheerfully mentioned this to Terry, and was shockingly cursed for his conceit as a "nouveau cultured," as a "typical enthusiastic convert," and so returned to the work whose end is satisfying because there is never an end.
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：
-- This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'However,' said my aunt, 'I don't want to put two young creaturesout of conceit with themselves, or to make them unhappy; so,though it is a girl and boy attachment, and girl and boyattachments very often- mind!I don't say always!come to nothing,still we'll be serious about it, and hope for a prosperous issue oneof these days.
-- She seemed to think she had quite settled the question, and gaveme such a triumphant little kiss, direct from her innocent heart,that I would hardly have put her out of conceit with her answer,for a fortune.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to.
-- By the bye, that is almost enough to put one out of conceit with a niece.
-- I think him a very handsome young man, and his manners are precisely what I like and approve so truly the gentleman, without the least conceit or puppyism.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For indeed, while I was in that prince's country, I could never endure to look in a glass, after mine eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects, because the comparison gave me so despicable a conceit of myself.
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：
-- But he had for-gotten, and even seemed to have a certain conceit of himself in his lameness.
-- They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
-- It looked just like the sort of conceit the knight most loathed, the conceit of self-abasement.
-- Duncan was a rather short, broad, dark-skinned, taciturn Hamlet of a fellow with straight black hair and a weird Celtic conceit of himself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
-- One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
-- Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability.
-- Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes.
-- Be this conceit of mine as it may, gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled housings of your last viceroy's snorting charger; and a brain, and a heart, and a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt Charlemagne, had he been born son to Charlemagne's father.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, if Imay mention so delicate a subject, endeavour to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.'
-- In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely pleased to close his large book, and go.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ivory, the gold, and the pearls, all received their appointment, and the gentleman having named the last day on which his existence could be continued without the possession of the toothpick-case, drew on his gloves with leisurely care, and bestowing another glance on the Miss Dashwoods, but such a one as seemed rather to demand than express admiration, walked off with a happy air of real conceit and affected indifference.
-- But while she wondered at the difference of the two young men, she did not find that the emptiness of conceit of the one, put her out of all charity with the modesty and worth of the other.
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