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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes: you had the reason of going to bed with a proud heart and an empty stomach,' said I.
-- 'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
-- That sounds ill natured: but she was so proud it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility.
-- And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband.
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