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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her husband had good reason to be proud of such a wife, one who could understand and enter into all his views.
-- "Well, really," said Lady Glenarvan, "you are so proud of your yacht that you make me wish to look all over it; and I should like to go down and see how our brave men are lodged."
-- Robert was very proud of his success.
-- The worn-out horses had stretched themselves full length on the ground, except Thaouka, who slept standing, true to his high blood, proud in repose as in action, and ready to start at his master's call.
-- This great recognition of his favorite's services was wholly unexpected by the Indian, who was talking to him that minute, caressing and speaking to him, as if human blood flowed in the veins of the proud creature.
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 am proud to say that I had no interest in the matter.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your de-fects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interest-ing.
-- Lady Catherine was reckoned proud by many people he knew, but HE had never seen anything but affability in her.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall have no fortune, and I fancy she is an exceeding proud woman."
-- "If we could be certain that it would be only for a while!But Mrs. Ferrars is a very headstrong proud woman, and in her first fit of anger upon hearing it, would very likely secure every thing to Robert, and the idea of that, for Edward's sake, frightens away all my inclination for hasty measures."
-- Elinor, Elinor, they who suffer little may be proud and independent as they like may resist insult, or return mortification but I cannot.
-- Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.
-- Fanny, rejoicing in her escape, and proud of the ready wit that had procured it, wrote the next morning to Lucy, to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every eye was fixed on Carrie, still proud and scornful.
-- He was proud of himself, proud of his success, proud of Carrie.
-- He was too proud to toady, too keen not to strictly observe the plane he occupied when there were those present who did not appreciate him, but, in situations like the present, where he could shine as a gentleman and be received without equivocation as a friend and equal among men of known ability, he was most delighted.
-- Carrie was fitted for this costume, and a few days later appeared, proud of her new laurels.
-- I should think you would be just too proud to breathe.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other nig-gers.
-- I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, be-cause rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.
-- Then there was Miss Charlotte; she was twenty- five, and tall and proud and grand, but as good as she could be when she warn't stirred up; but when she was she had a look that would make you wilt in your tracks, like her father.
-- Well, he cried and took on so that me and Jim didn't know hardly what to do, we was so sorry and so glad and proud we'd got him with us, too.
-- There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking!I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You ought to be proud of yourself.
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