conceits

英 [kənˈsiːts]

美 [kənˈsits]

n.  自负; 骄傲自大; 别出心裁但不实用的效果; 巧妙但不实用的东西; 巧妙的言辞; 别出心裁的比喻
conceit的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自负;自高自大
  Conceitis very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.
  1. He knew, without conceit, he was considered a genius...
     不是他自命不凡，他知道大家认为他是个天才。
  2. Pamela knew she was a good student, and that was not just a conceit.
     帕梅拉知道自己是个好学生，而这绝不仅仅是自负。
• N-COUNT (文学中)巧妙的比喻，别出心裁的对比
  In literature, aconceitis a clever or unusual metaphor or comparison.
  1. Critics may complain that the novel's central conceit is rather simplistic.
     批评家们可能会认为小说的核心比喻过于简单。

双语例句

• Like his poems, John Donne s prose works are also full of conceits.
  邓恩散文像他的诗歌一样充满了奇思妙喻。
• Will to me, betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles, its phony moral certitudes.
  对我而言，背叛时代就意味着揭露它的狂妄、它的弱点、它枯萎的道德信念。
• Finally, we lodged conceits and advices for resolving financing issues to enterprise and the government.
  第四部分为企业和政府提出解决融资问题的意见和建议。
• He conceits himself already a statesman.
  他自命不凡以为他自己已是一位政治家。
• He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.
  他禁不住要狠狠刺一下周围那些人的自负、伪善和神气十足的爱国心，就像一个孩子忍不住手痒要刺破一个气球似的。
• Some proposals and conceits about legal power dispose of banking supervision in China in accordance with present condition are put forward.
  作者认为，从法权配置的角度看，成立专司银行业监管的中国银监会是符合现实国情的选择。
• Appreciation of the Conceits in the Love Poems of Metaphysical Poet John Donne
  英国玄学派诗人约翰·多恩爱情诗歌中的意象群赏析
• One of the conceits of Heat is that truly good cooking requires an understanding of the soulful connections between land, animals and the communities they nurture.
  《热度》包含的观点之一是，真正好的烹饪需要理解土地、动物和它们养育的生物群落之间的情感联系。
• There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
  也许这张表现我们的世界是如何渺小的照片，是人类愚蠢自负的最好证实。
• The most grotesque fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.
  夜晚躺在床上的时候，各种离奇怪诞的幻想纷至沓来。