conceit
conceit 英 [kənˈsi:t] 美 [kənˈsit]
n. 自负；构思
名词复数:conceits
- If you’re always boasting and can’t stop talking about yourself, you have that character flaw known as conceit. Your friends — if you have any — may also complain about your arrogance, vanity, and egotism.
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- n. 自负；构思
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1. She seems to be eaten up with her own conceit.
她仿佛已经被骄傲冲昏了头脑.
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2. He's full of conceit.
他十分自负.
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3. The idea of the wind singing is a romantic conceit.
风儿在唱歌这个想法是一个很浪漫的构思。
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4. the novel's central conceit is rather simplistic.
小说的核心构思过于简单。
- conceit (n.) late 14c., "a thought, a notion, that which is mentally conceived," from conceiven (see conceive) based on analogy of deceit/deceive and receipt/receive. Sense evolved from "something formed in the mind" to "fanciful or witty notion, ingenious thought" (1510s), to "vanity, exaggerated estimate of one's own mental abilities" (c. 1600) through shortening of self-conceit (1580s).
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