flatter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 阿谀, 使高兴; (肖像等) 胜过(真人真物)，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I flatter myself that I could find my way about.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't flatter yourself, my boy,' said he; 'she's not for such as you; she's a princess, she is, and her name is Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff, and she lives with Totski, who wishes to get rid of her because he's growing rather old fiftyfive or so and wants to marry a certain beauty, the loveliest woman in all Petersburg.'
-- 'He did not flatter me.
-- But for all that you needn't flatter yourself, my boy; she is not for you.
-- Every night I have drenched my pillow with tears, not for you, my friend, not for you, don't flatter yourself!I have my own grief, always the same, al-ways the same.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dy-ing wolf and a man's cub.
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 ar-rangement was understood to be merely temporary, and was made as much with a view to flatter his neighbors as in obedience to the invariable rule of Indian policy.
-- In short, he so blended the warlike with the artful, the obvious with the obscure, as to flatter the propensities of both parties, and to leave to each subject of hope, while neither could say it clearly comprehended his intentions.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You flatter yourself.
-- He would not say that to flatter her he was far too self-opinionated and objective by nature.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He encouraged him to regard Hindley as a reprobate; and, night after night, he regularly grumbled out a long string of tales against Heathcliff and Catherine: always minding to flatter Earnshaw's weakness by heaping the heaviest blame on the latter.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree.
-- As a clergy-man, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within in the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch.
-- This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem.
-- 'You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I flatter myself," replied Elinor, "that even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase, you will hereafter find your own house as faultless as you now do this."
-- "My engagements at present," replied Willoughby, confusedly, "are of such a nature that I dare not flatter myself" He stopt.
-- I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it may flatter you to know, Mastro Antonio, that I have come to you to beg for a favor."
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