proud是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (of) 自豪的； 引以自豪的； 妄自尊大的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.
-- After grasping the Doctor's hand, as he stood victorious and proud before him; after grasping the hand of Mr. Lorry, who came panting in breathless from his struggle against the waterspout of the Carmagnole; after kissing little Lucie, who was lifted up to clasp her arms round his neck; and af-ter embracing the ever zealous and faithful Pross who lifted her; he took his wife in his arms, and carried her up to their 409rooms.
-- He was happy in the return he had made her, he was recompensed for his suffering, he was proud of his strength.
-- 'Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we com-mon dogs are proud too, sometimes.
-- The wood-sawyer said he would be proud and flattered to attend the citizeness.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, if a fairy tale would come of its own accord; but they are proud and haughty, and come only when they choose.
-- A sailor's wife, who was always proud and fine, in her way, came to her neighbor, and complained that she had got a splinter in her finger.
-- But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humor and he must be so to answer well he must be treated quite like a man.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But all the same I admire your grandeur, and am proud that I've a friend in such a great person.
-- Every girl's proud of an offer."
-- She was right, for Levin actually could not bear her, and despised her for what she was proud of and regarded as a fine characteristic--her nervousness, her delicate contempt and indifference for everything coarse and earthly.
-- I am too proud ever to allow myself to care for a man who does not love me."
-- But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Night came on; the train passed on at full speed, in the midst of the roaring of the tigers, bears, and wolves which fled before the locomotive; and the marvels of Bengal, Golconda ruined Gour, Murshedabad, the ancient capital, Burdwan, Hugly, and the French town of Chandernagor, where Passepartout would have been proud to see his country's flag flying, were hidden from their view in the darkness.
-- repeated the worthy servant to himself, proud of his shrewdness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came from Back Bay; he was proud of it and let you know about it.
-- The students who had learned to look through the microscope without having to close one eye were proud and professional, and all of them talked of the beauty of identifying the bacillus, as they twiddled the brass thumbscrews to the right focus and the cells rose from cloudiness to sharp distinctness on the slides before them.
-- (He was proud that this was fifty more than his predecessor had required.)
-- But waiting on table!Oh, Mart, why are you so proud of being a roughneck?
-- He was proud of himself for having been lofty.
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：
-- Yes, yes, she is a lady of spirit, proud and determined.
-- I assure you I am proud of these breeches,' and he exhibit-ed to Raskolnikov a pair of light, summer trousers of grey woollen material.
-- Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother's; there was a proud light in her almost black eyes and yet at times a look of extraordinary kindness.
-- 'And 芒聙娄 the worst of it was he was so coarse, so dirty, he had the manners of a pothouse; and 芒聙娄 and even admitting that he knew he had some of the essentials of a gentleman 芒聙娄 what was there in that to be proud of?
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