| 单词 | conceit |
| 释义 | con·ceit I. 1. a. (1) (2) obsolete (3) b. 2. a. b. c. 3. < with new techniques of designing artificial flowers … some of the resulting conceits are quite fetching — New Yorker > 4. archaic 5. obsolete Synonyms: < conceit, being a false estimate of one's abilities or an overestimate of those that are least important, is both a moral and an intellectual failing — C.W.H.Johnson > < Aristotle's “Poetics” was so hard that nobody could understand it and therefore he was fearful lest he should be thought guilty of presumption and conceit in trying to explain it at all — Irving Babbitt > self-love in nonphilosophic usages may suggest abnormal concentration on one's own wishes and considerations to the exclusion of others < when I am led by self-love to keep my seat whilst ladies stand — James Ford > < but the proper meaning of self-love is regard to self in distinction from others or regard to some private interest — G.P.Fisher > egotism may indicate a tendency to attract attention to and center interest on oneself and one's achievements < she had the simplest egotism, the most open desire to be thought first always — Virginia Woolf > < egotism resides more in a kind of proud isolation, in a species of contempt for the opinions and aims of others — A.C.Benson > egoism implies a self-centered concentration on one's own desires and aspirations to the exclusion of interest in others < it's not so much selfishness as a sort of — is egoism the word? When she wants to do a thing, she doesn't take into account the wants of others at all — B.A.Williams > < the essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism. It must not only regard itself as the peer of any other culture; it must regard itself as the superior of any other — H.L.Mencken > self-esteem may indicate either natural well-based commendable pride in self or more shaky and somewhat vain attempts at self-pride and self-adjustment < I do some things very well; but my self-esteem is crushed by the multitude of things at which I am a hopeless duffer — G.B.Shaw > < Hollywood propping up the self-esteem of celluloid royalty — Gladys B. Stern > amour propre indicates a pride in oneself, often commendable or pardonable but often delicate and susceptible to being wounded < I should doubt the judgment of anyone who told me that the people of Egypt have no amour propre or that there does not exist in Egypt today a legitimate feeling of pride for the nation — Manchester Guardian Weekly > < our amour propre is concerned in believing the war in which we fought a righteous one and the victory in which we participated an unsullied one — New Republic > II. transitive verb 1. obsolete < our great need of him you have right well conceited — Shakespeare > 2. now dialect < I did conceit a most delicious feast — George Herbert > 3. 4. now dialect Britain 5. < began to conceit himself already a poet — Robert Southey > intransitive verb now dialect III. < found his conceit for the film early — Peter Wilkinson > |
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