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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He glanced timidly at Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud countenance wore at that moment an expres-sion of such gratitude and friendliness, such complete and unlooked-for respect (in place of the sneering looks and ill-disguised contempt he had expected), that it threw him into greater confusion than if he had been met with abuse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my motheris out of breath and rests herself in an elbow-chair, I watch herwinding her bright curls round her fingers, and straightening herwaist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look sowell, and is proud of being so pretty.
-- But Peggotty said, with greater emphasisthan usual, that we must take things as we found them, and that,for her part, she was proud to call herself a Yarmouth Bloater.
-- 'Well, sir,if you can make out here, for a fortnut, 'long wi' her,' nodding athis sister, 'and Ham, and little Em'ly, we shall be proud of yourcompany.'
-- When school wasover, and they came out and spoke to me, I felt it rather good inmyself not to be proud to any of them, and to take exactly the samenotice of them all, as before.
-- She was particularly proud of her turn for business; andshe showed it now in reducing everything to pen and ink, andbeing moved by nothing.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What are you proud of?
-- He saw his son every year in London, and was proud of him; and his fond report of him as a very fine young man had made Highbury feel a sort of pride in him too.
-- I am rather proud of little George.
-- We are very proud of the children, are not we, papa?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that's only the skin of the woman, and these dandy cattle be as proud as a lucifer in their insides."
-- "He was very proud of her, too, when they were married, as I've been told," said the maltster.
-- "But we ought to be proud of her here she lightens up the old place.
-- It was one which many women of her own station in the neighbourhood, and not a few of higher rank, would have been wild to accept and proud to publish.
-- "A true man, and proud as a lucifer."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She raised her head like the great lady that she was, and lightnings flashed from her proud eyes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She never did beat Boyd much because he's the oldest and besides he's the runt ofthe litter," said Stuart, proud of his six feet two.
-- But they were as fiercely proud in their poverty as the planters were in their wealth, and they would acceptnothing that smacked of charity from their rich neighbors.
-- No, 'tis proud I am.
-- "It's lying you are, and I'm proud of it.
-- They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proudto belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of; indeed it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits; he himself confessed that if the Church was "thrown open," meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it.
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