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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Each one was a girl of fair common sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or deny her love, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
  她们每一个人都是明白事理的姑娘，谁也没有想到为了超过别人，就用虚荣的幻想去自欺欺人，或是去否认她们的爱情，或去卖弄风情。
• 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 expressed his conceits fluently.
  他流畅地表达了自己的想法。
• This paper aims to analyze the metaphysical conceits, research into the uniqueness of the metaphysical poetry and delineate its impact on the 20~ ( th) century modern poetry.
  本文对玄学派诗歌采用的比喻手法进行分析，探究其独特性，进而阐述玄学派诗歌对20世纪现代诗歌的影响。
• 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。
• The design activity, in fact, is a process that the designer represents users 'demands and his conceits with his design language, and that user knowledge and design knowledge interact and couple with each other.
  这些活动，事实上是设计师通过自己的设计语言，再现用户的需求和自己构思的一种过程，是用户知识与设计知识碰撞、耦合的一种过程。