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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Epanchin came of the princely stock of Muishkin, which if not a brilliant, was, at all events, a decidedly an-cient family; and she was extremely proud of her descent.
-- Certainly no one could blame them for being too arrogant or haughty, and yet everybody was well aware that they were proud and quite understood their own value.
-- It's a proud face too, terribly proud!And I I can't say whether she is good and kind, or not.
-- She had heard that he was proud and ambitious; she had heard much that was interesting of his mother and sister, she had heard of them from Mr. Ptitsin, and would much like to make their acquaintance, but another question! would they like to receive her into their house?
-- General Epanchin was a proud woman by nature.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust, as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all.
-- Go, therefore, into battle, and show yourself the man you have been always proud to be.'
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
-- See how she has been inciting proud Diomed to vent his rage on the immortal gods.
-- 'What would you have', said he, 'daughter of great Jove, that your proud spirit has sent you hither from Olympus?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I am proud of him, and now we must go to the Cold Lairs.'
-- Kotick's fur was almost pure white now, and though he felt very proud of it, he only said, 'Swim quickly!My bones are aching for the land.'
-- He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy.
-- Son, I'm proud of you, and what's more, I'll come with you to your island if there is such a place.'
-- Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- While in view of their admir-ing comrades, the same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow up the liv-ing mass which had slowly entered its bosom.
-- interrupted the hunter, elevating his body like one who was proud of his trust.
-- It was the first opportunity possessed by Duncan and his companions to view the marked lineaments of either of their Indian atten-dants, and each individual of the party felt relieved from a burden of doubt, as the proud and determined, though wild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself on their notice.
-- The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly ex-pressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance, rather than the style in which he lived.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were even more attractive than their photographs had suggested, and she was right to be proud of them.
-- I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week.
-- I imagine that a pickpocket, proud of his light fingers, must feel a sort of indignation with the careless woman who leaves in a cab a vanity-bag with all her jewels in it.
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