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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My poor mother was very proud of my gift, and she gave me a box of water-colours as a present.
-- Stroeve had always been very proud of his taste.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It need not be said that the sailor was proud of his pupil.
-- Neb and Pencroft were very proud of this rather heavy furniture, which they would not have changed on any account.
-- To the young boy belonged the honor of this shot, and he was proud enough of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quilp, consider, consider,' the old man cried, trembling so much the while, that the papers in his hand fluttered as if they were shaken by the wind, 'that orphan child!If I were alone, I could die with gladness perhaps even anticipate that doom which is dealt out so unequally: coming, as it does, on the proud and happy in their strength, and shunning the needy and afflicted, and all who court it in their despair but what I have done, has been for her.
-- 'Don't you feel how naughty it is of you,' resumed Miss Monflathers, 'to be a wax-work child, when you might have the proud consciousness of assisting, to the extent of your infant powers, the manufactures of your country; of improving your mind by the constant contemplation of the steam-engine; and of earning a comfortable and independent subsistence of from two-and-ninepence to three shillings per week?
-- The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.
-- They always praised the child, her sense and beauty, and he was proud to hear them!But what was that, so often added, which wrung his heart, and made him sob and weep alone, in some dull corner!Alas!even careless strangers they who had no feeling for her, but the interest of the moment they who would go away and forget next week that such a being lived even they saw it even they pitied her even they bade him good day compassionately, and whispered as they passed.
-- I hate you, my darling fellow, with good cause, and proud as you are to-night, I'll have my turn. What's that?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, Bochkova, Euphemia, have received a copy, and am proud of it, and will permit no one to laugh at me."
-- Nekhludoff could not help exclaiming, especially because he felt that by the word "comrade" Maslenikoff was condescending, i. e., although he considered himself a very important personage, he nevertheless was not too proud of his greatness, and called himself his comrade.
-- The general's son was making the same career as his father, and was very proud of the business with which he was entrusted.
-- Her repeated refusal to accept his sacrifice was partly due to the fact that she wished to repeat those proud words which she had once told him, and mainly because she knew that their marriage would make him unhappy.
-- The proud looking superintendent, walking out to the gate and glancing at Nekhludoff's pass in the light of the lantern, shrugged his broad shoulders, but obeyed the order and invited the visitors to follow him.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he was very proud and stiff;He said "I'd go and wake them, if "I took a corkscrew from the shelf:I went to wake them up myself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ned Land was very proud of his shot.
-- "Yes, M. Aronnax; you have the right to be proud of your countryman.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt proud too, full of male strength.
-- I believe in the proud angels and the demons that are our fore-runners.
-- They will destroy us, because we are not proud enough.
-- "It is a process of pride I want to be proud ""Proud and subservient, proud and subservient, I know you," he retorted dryly.
-- "She was a proud haughty lady when she came into these parts my word, she was that!She mustn't be looked at, and it was worth your life to speak to her."
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