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：
-- Curious, she thought, that that thin, proud man should have that little, sharp woman for a mother!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father and Mother Meagles sat with their daughter between them, the last three on one side of the table: on the opposite side sat Mr Clennam; a tall French gentleman with raven hair and beard, of a swart and terrible, not to say genteelly diabolical aspect, but who had shown himself the mildest of men; and a handsome young Englishwoman, travelling quite alone, who had a proud observant face, and had either withdrawn herself from the rest or been avoided by the rest nobody, herself excepted perhaps, could have quite decided which.
-- It said so in the proud eyes, in the lifted nostril, in the handsome but compressed and even cruel mouth.
-- 'Why, I'm getting proud of you,' said his friend the turnkey, one day.
-- The turnkey really was proud of him.
-- And he grew to be proud of the title.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he's very proud and doesn't like to mix with his neighbors.
-- And Amy went on with her work, in the proud consciousness of virtue and the successful utterance of two long words in a breath.
-- He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend.'
-- With hearty thanks and best wishes, I remain 'Your grateful friend and humble servant, 'JAMES LAURENCE' 'There, Beth, that's an honor to be proud of, I'm sure!
-- But Amy had not forgotten Miss Snow's cutting remarks about 'some persons whose noses were not too flat to smell other people's limes, and stuck-up people who were not too proud to ask for them', and she instantly crushed 'that Snow girl's' hopes by the withering telegram, 'You needn't be so polite all of a sudden, for you won't get any.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Delight is to him a far, far upward, and inward delight who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
-- Marchant service indeed!I suppose now ye feel considerable proud of having served in those marchant ships.
-- Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their glittering expression all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
-- Round the world!There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct?
-- "There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things; look here, three peaks as proud as Lucifer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're getting too proud to own me afore company, are you?
-- We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey -headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
-- The old servant looked up at the speaker, as she turned away, with a glance as proud and admiring as if she had been his own child.
-- Then, there were the walks as usual, and many calls at the clean houses of the labouring men; and at night, Oliver read a chapter or two from the Bible, which he had been studying all the week, and in the performance of which duty he felt more proud and pleased, than if he had been the clergyman himself.
-- Look into the world; think how many hearts you would be proud to gain, are there.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agree-able when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
-- A person may be proud without being vain.
-- 'If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy,' cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, 'I should not care how proud I was.
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