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Conceit Pride You’re Kәn'si:T Beauty Angered People 他对自己的美丽感到自负,这惹怒了许多人

Front conceit
Pron [kәn'si:t]
Back 【CONCEIT】
Her conceit about her beauty angered many people.
他对自己的美丽感到自负,这惹怒了许多人。
【重点词汇】
conceit n. 自负 同: pride
Vocab
conceitthe trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride

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.

A conceit can also be an artistic device — probably a little forced — like the plot of a movie built on the conceit of everything that happens being foretold in song. You might find an architectural conceit in a Baroque palace, where you think you’re looking down a long hallway lined with columns, but when you get closer you see that it's really a mural painted in perspective so that the columns only seem to disappear in the distance.

All forms of 'conceit' will appear on average once every 914 pages.
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