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

• He expressed his conceits fluently.
  他流畅地表达了自己的想法。
• 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。
• Philosophy of course tolerates no mere assertions or conceits, and checks the free play of argumentative see-saw.
  哲学当然不容许单纯的武断或妄自尊大，也不容许任意无端的往复辩论。
• 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。
• He conceits himself already a statesman.
  他自命不凡以为他自己已是一位政治家。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。