pretentious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 自负的, 自命不凡的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remembered that to Clif Clawson it had been pretentious to use any phrase which was not as colloquial and as smutty as the speech of a truck-driver, and that his own discourse had differed from Clif's largely in that it had been less fantastic and less original.
-- God give me a quiet and relentless anger against all pretense and all pretentious work and all work left slack and unfinished.
-- I am sorry you are not to have the fun of being pretentious and successful--for a while.
-- But amid the pretentious splendor which Roger Lanyon had accumulated, Joyce was not tedious.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What surprises me,' he began, after a short pause, hand-ing the letter to his mother, but not addressing anyone in particular, 'is that he is a business man, a lawyer, and his conversation is pretentious indeed, and yet he writes such an uneducated letter.'
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