conceited是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 自负的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And what do you suppose, you conceited female,' said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, 'that the worth of YOUR prayers may be?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How conceited and self-satisfied he will be when he gets my note!But I will show him.... How horrid that paint smells!Why is it they're always painting and building?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm magnificently uninterested in this conceited hypnotist."
-- Salutary was the tartness with which she protested, "You're the most conceited man that ever lived!
-- But-- The conceited idiot!Gosh, so Holabird was in the war!Invalided out, I guess.
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：
-- He said a good deal more, for he seems a little conceited and likes to be listened to, but this is scarcely a vice.
-- Above all he must crush that conceited milksop who was the cause of it all.
-- He was rather soft-heart-ed, but self-confident and sometimes extremely conceited in speech, which had an absurd effect, incongruous with his little figure.
-- It needed the utmost delicacy, the greatest nicety, but she has managed things so that that fool, that conceited baggage, that provincial non-entity, simply because she is the widow of a major, and has come to try and get a pension and to fray out her skirts in the government offices, because at fifty she paints her face (everybody knows it) 芒聙娄 a creature like that did not think fit to come, and has not even answered the invitation, which the most ordinary good manners required!I can't under-stand why Pyotr Petrovitch has not come?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You never can show better than as your ownnatural self, my sweet Dora; and we'll try no conceited 643experiments, but go back to our old way, and be happy.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not think he is conceited either, in general,' said Harriet, her conscience opposing such censure; 'at least, he is very good natured, and I shall always feel much obliged to him, and have a great regard for but that is quite a dif-ferent thing from and you know, though he may like me, it does not follow that I should and certainly I must con-fess that since my visiting here I have seen people and if one comes to compare them, person and manners, there is no comparison at all, one is so very handsome and agree-able.
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba's momentary impulse at hearing this was to ask why he thought that, till she remembered that, far from being a conceited assumption on Boldwood's part, it was but the natural conclusion of serious reflection based on deceptive premises of her own offering.
-- Fool as I may be, I am not so conceited as to suppose that!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And although I could not consent to go and hear that little conceited fel-low deliver sentences out of a pulpit, I recollected what he had said of M. Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, that was too conceited for belief.
-- "Just because you're conceited at being the 'great blockader' doesn't give you the right to insultwomen."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My thoughts were further distracted by the excessive pride of Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover the least analogy between the two sciences; unless those people sup-pose, that because the smallest circle has as many degrees as the largest, therefore the regulation and management of the world require no more abilities than the handling and turning of a globe; but I rather take this quality to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most curious and conceited in matters where we have least concern, and for which we are least adapted by study or nature.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she only said: 'What silly hocus-pocus!As if his little conceited con-sciousness could know what was happening as slowly as all that!It only means HE'S a physical failure on the earth, so he wants to make the whole universe a physical failure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What do you suppose he cares for you, you conceited woman?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marking all this, Stubb argued well for his scheme, and turning to the Guernsey-man had a little chat with him, during which the stranger mate expressed his detestation of his Captain as a conceited ignoramus, who had brought them all into so unsavory and unprofitable a pickle.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great!Not handsome enough to dance with!I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.
-- Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pe-dantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
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