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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
-- "To think," said Mr. Pumblechook, after snorting admiration at me for some moments, "that I should have been the humble instrument of leading up to this, is a proud reward."
-- "You're as proud of it as Punch; ain't you, Aged?"
-- "She was proud and insulting, and you wanted to go away from her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was, more-over, very shrewd and clever; and the miller was so proud of her, that he one day told the king of the land, who used to come and hunt in the wood, that his daughter could spin gold out of straw.
-- But when the proud princess perceived that he was not 213her equal in birth, she scorned him, and required him first to perform another task.
-- But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said: 'Although he has performed both the tasks, he shall not be my husband until he had brought me an apple from the Tree of Life.'
-- Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.
-- 'I have shut them up by a charm between two mountains,' said the dwarf, 'because they were proud and ill-behaved, and scorned to ask advice.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bowed down to the board of the table, and humbly answered 'that I was my master's slave: but, if I were at my own disposal, I should be proud to devote my life to her majesty's service.'
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
-- But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they pos-sess, than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man.
-- Heedless of the smoke and mud and wet, and of her two long journeys, she was gazing at it, as if the heavy thrum that issued from its many stories were proud music to her.
-- From that moment she was impassive, proud and cold held Sissy at a distance changed to her altogether.
-- I say, equal terms, because although I know what I am, and the exact depth of the gutter I have lifted myself out of, better than any man does, I am as proud as you are.
-- I am just as proud as you are.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle looked at me with a proud and triumphant glance.
-- Hans was not a bit more proud after hearing our determination than he was before.
-- cried the Professor, who was rather proud of his polyglot knowledge of languages, and made the same demand in French.
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：
-- It was obvious in the anxious brightness of his eyes, how proud he was, after the great shock, of being alive.
-- Clifford was extraordinarily proud of himself.
-- He was rather proud of the integrity of his mind, and of his NOT being a time-server.
-- She was infinitely amused, and proud too, that even their talking they could not do, without her silent presence.
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