conceit

UK:  [kən'siːt]

US:  [kən'sit]

复数：conceits  过去分词：conceited  现在分词：conceiting  

n.

1.自负,自大,自满

2.傲慢,傲气,自高自大

3.奇想,幻想;(作品的)做作,(比喻的)牵强附会,(构思的)奇巧

4.意见,想法;私见,独断

5.不切实用的花哨物品

6.〔古语〕理解力

7.〔英方〕喜欢,中意

8.虚伪;虚荣心

9.主意

v.

1.〔方言〕想像

2.〔英方〕喜欢,中意于

3.〔古语〕理解

4.夸赞

1 . Error is often the precursor of what is correct, but conceit is the prelude to a fall.
错误往往是正确的先导，骄傲是跌跤的前奏。

2 . but Miss Hawkins, it might be fairly supposed from her easy conceit, had been the best of her own set.
而霍金斯小姐呢，从她那大大落落、自命不凡的神态来看，或许可以算作她那一类人中的佼佼者。

3 . Anyone he had ever injured by his conceit might now feel revenged to see how ravaged he looked.
凡是从前被他的自高自大伤害过的人，现在只要看他一眼这种憔悴的模样，就会感到大仇已报。

4 . She did not find that the emptiness and conceit of the one put her at all out of charity with the modesty and worth of the other.
她根本不觉得其中一个的空洞与虚伪剥夺了她对另外那一位的朴实与真挚所怀的喜爱。

5 . It was merely a question of "good form, " the conceit of a superior breeding, the duty not to give oneself away.
这不过是“高尚体统”的问题，一种优越教养的自负，尽到不使自己感情流露的责任而已。