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单词 conceit
释义
conceit
noun
uk
/kənˈsiːt/us
/kənˈsiːt/

conceitnoun(PRIDE)

[U]
thestateof being tooproudof yourself andyouractions:
自负，自大
The conceit of that man isincredible!那人极度自负！
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Saddening, shocking and upsetting
  • affecting
  • agonizingly
  • arrogance
  • baleful
  • be cold comfortidiom
  • distressingly
  • dolorous
  • ego trip
  • egoism
  • egomania
  • impiously
  • impiousness
  • lacerating
  • loftiness
  • narcissism
  • teary
  • touching
  • touchingly
  • tragically
  • traumatic
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conceitnoun(COMPARISON)

[C]literary
acleverorsurprisingcomparison,especiallyin apoem
（尤指诗歌中）巧妙的比喻，别出心裁的比喻
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Literature
  • action hero
  • alliterative
  • alternative history
  • anapest
  • anti-literary
  • fictionality
  • fictive
  • free verse
  • genre fiction
  • Grinch
  • passion play
  • pentameter
  • poem
  • poesy
  • poet laureate
  • theatrics
  • topos
  • tragedy
  • tragicomic
  • trilogy
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(Definition ofconceitfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

conceit| American Dictionary

conceit
noun[U]
us
/kənˈsit/
thehabitorattitudeofthinkingyourselfbetterthanothers,evenwhen there is noreasontothinkso

conceited

adjectiveus
/kənˈsi·t̬ɪd/
He’s agreatmusician, and not conceited at all.
(Definition ofconceitfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconceit

conceit
In his opening pages he almost falls over his own metatextual conceits.
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Such literary conceits demanded hard labours for composers who took inspiration from them.
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One poem impresses through its pathos, the other through its rhetorical subtlety and bold conceits.
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He faults them, to be sure, for their 'want of variety' and extravagant conceits.
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The conceits point to a monstrous self-perversion, the forfeiting of integrity and the living out of a lie at which, moreover, his mind or heart knowingly connives.
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The former produces a feverish versatility of perception, a fantasia of epistemological pluralism, whose mercurial conceits are no more 'uncertain and adulterate' than their mutating physical objects.
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The two had much in common:conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.
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Yannis is correct to point out the problem of this academicconceitwhich effectively masks the political and emotional biases of the archaeologists themselves.
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Their opposition to the radical nationalists sprang from a profound socialconceit.
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Hisconceit, in this essay, is that of convergent evolution, whereby different species develop in similar ways in response to similar environmental pressures.
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What a high price we expect from our people in order to humour the conceits of their elites!
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We are all big men in our own conceits but, after all, we are only employés of the men.
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I had better not admit how many because that might be rather conceited of me.
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He may be so conceited to believe that he is competent when he is not.
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Coming to my expectations for the future, it would be unduly conceited of me to have any expectations at all.
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