| 词汇 | example_english_conceit |
| 释义 | Examples of conceitThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In his opening pages he almost falls over his own metatextual conceits. Such literary conceits demanded hard labours for composers who took inspiration from them. One poem impresses through its pathos, the other through its rhetorical subtlety and bold conceits. He faults them, to be sure, for their 'want of variety' and extravagant conceits. The conceits point to a monstrous self-perversion, the forfeiting of integrity and the living out of a lie at which, moreover, his mind or heart knowingly connives. The former produces a feverish versatility of perception, a fantasia of epistemological pluralism, whose mercurial conceits are no more 'uncertain and adulterate' than their mutating physical objects. The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress. Yannis is correct to point out the problem of this academic conceit which effectively masks the political and emotional biases of the archaeologists themselves. Their opposition to the radical nationalists sprang from a profound social conceit. His conceit, in this essay, is that of convergent evolution, whereby different species develop in similar ways in response to similar environmental pressures. What a high price we expect from our people in order to humour the conceits of their elites! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We are all big men in our own conceits but, after all, we are only employés of the men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had better not admit how many because that might be rather conceited of me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He may be so conceited to believe that he is competent when he is not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Coming to my expectations for the future, it would be unduly conceited of me to have any expectations at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps we should not be too conceited at our skill in dealing with these consolidation measures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am very far indeed from being conceited enough to suggest that it cannot be improved in matters of detail or of drafting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is she so conceited that she proposes to ignore the advice of even the bishops? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not wish to be at all conceited or sure about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we not liable to be a little too conceited in that respect? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of our most tiresome national conceits is to imagine ourselves masters of understatement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must not be conceited or self-centred. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have, it may be thought conceited to say so, a particular vein of talent in air piloting which is in advance of that possessed by other countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are, perhaps, conceited here. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Second, he must not be conceited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When it comes to his own ego and his own little conceits, he often loves to tell people of the eminent personalities whom he has treated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The colonial judge exercised this method for some 10 years to everyone's satisfaction, and then he got conceited, and the time came when he gave his reasons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conceit on which the play rests, confusion of dog with baby, is fittingly absurd, but hilarity should not disguise the more serious political note. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The whole dialogue is but a string of brilliant conceits, which, if not delivered well, are tedious and unintelligible. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The enmities, ambitions, conceits and dogmas which had paralysed their shadow government proved to be even more disastrous in their struggle for power. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Through the power of the conceit, the two unlike parts of this metaphor evolve toward such similitude that the earthly poet takes on sacred power. His lyrics are pure and fresh, and his romances, though full of conceits, are pleasant reading, remarkably free from grossness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetoricalwritten for actors to declaim rather than speak. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Firstly, the levels of realism are dispensed with from the first; the conceit of the drama is always secondary to the possibilities of the spectacle. The conceit is strange, but far from framing the work, it opens it up to other fantasies and other shores of discourse. The plot is unusually straightforward, but centred around the customary conceit of mistaken identities. An unexpected conceit launched the sonataform first movement: its first phrase sounded like an ending. He was an excellent painter of battle scenes, landscapes, and architectural conceits (vedute). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Their exquisite conceits and artistry made them a model to "literati" of the 16th and especially the 17th century. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Their conceits, themes, ideas, imagery, words, and sometimes their rhetorical structure consistently and successively match like particulars in these daily readings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are the biographical counterpart of the opera's larger historical conceit. His exacting drawings are the idioms that he deploys to assemble his syntactical, room-filling installations and architectural display conceits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Compare the standard conceit in anonymous denunciations of adopting the persona of the 'public voice'. The conceit then arose among the students that payment entailed credit. The central conceit of the building is of 'discovery' - of remains, origins, hidden and revealed landscapes, and 'oneself'. He had the crass but revolutionary (revolutionary in the sense that it overthrew generations of class conceits) notion that you are what you buy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. You were saying the design conceit came out of the workshop? In establishing artist and institution as conceits, the projects are free to explore these roles as pure brand, largely existent for critical assessment. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Postumia was sternly warned to leave her sports, taunts and merry conceits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Among these older women, moreover, the dismissal of a concern for one's weight as a sign of conceit has driven their appearance orientation further underground. Other sects betray still stronger partiality for astrological conceits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When that conceit turned fragile, the historians abandoned the debate. Another vehicle for the anthropocentrism objection is the literary conceit whereby nonhuman things are endowed with thought and speech. At its bottom lies self-conceit, itself closely allied with radical evil. They are characterised by directness of expression and some conceits which can appear quaint. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Wassmann has also intertwined his work with other literary conceits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The whimsicalities to be found in all the books are, in fact, not random, not mere conceits, but make internal references. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To believe otherwise is another iteration of the conceit that recasts the past in terms familiar, or advantageous, to us. They spend most of their time eating, drinking, and holding forth on their personal intellectual conceits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Too bad those moments are outnumbered by a reliance on secondhand lyrical conceits and drifting arrangements. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rather than remaining a fixed expression with which the subject over-identifies, it can become a self-conscious conceit covering the development of a revitalised inner life. The conceits, sometimes bold and very coarse, show that its subject matter is popular. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The subject-matter is traditional conceits on the eyes and heart, laments at separation, accounts of the sleeplessness or troubled dreams of the beloved. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The claim that there is an optimal solution to be found to social and economic problems may be a rationalistic conceit. No volume labelled ' the essential readings ' - the publisher's conceit - will satisfy every critic. Tradition will always make its impact in one way or another, and the great error of modernism has been that conceit that they tried to avoid tradition. On the evidence, then, liberation is a central concern of the opera, its reigning conceit, deeply imbedded in the text and richly articulated in the music. The devices of "conceptismo", such as paradox and conceits, are drawn upon again perhaps in more complex ways than before because he is dealing with abstract concepts such as love. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The implication of such comments, it appeared, was that daughters were expected to be concerned about their general appearance but not to the point of conceit or superficiality. The conceit of 'the gift' provides a useful metaphor to ground aspects of the discussion around social exchange, power relations, emotional and psychological reactions to applied theatre interventions. How did that conceit arise? The use of a road, or later a railway line, to reproduce the experience of approaching a location is a common visual conceit within many townscapes and topographical views. We are condemning generations yet unborn and unbegot to debt - all in order to sustain this conceit of monetary union. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Let us have a good conceit of ourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this talk about the mental inferiority of women is nothing but an example of the colossal conceit of men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One's capacity for driving is probably the vainest form of conceit, particularly among men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He must be quiet, patient and without an atom of conceit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps that is conceit on my part, but they certainly tell me so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I worry when the conceit of power reaches dictatorship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He displayed the most overbearing arrogance and unparalleled conceit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, his arrogance and conceit prohibited him from doing that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If abrasiveness, arrogance and unwavering conceit were substitutes for policies, our merchant fleet would be doing very well under his guidance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sadly, conceit is still rampant in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problem is how to develop their self-confidence without developing their conceit? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conceit and danger that flows from the contempt for opposition creates dictatorship but does not sustain democracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to be offensive by saying that this claim is based more or less on conceit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing takes the conceit out of a man like going through an election. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They fell prey to the eighth deadly sin —culpable conceit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You cannot argue with conceit, you can only pity it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I agree that it is not an affectation or a conceit to ask that accommodation be made availble which is suitable for television studios. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a greater expert in conceit; he is wonderful at that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People talk with a certain amount of extraordinary conceit of being pacifist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One day that ineffable conceit will be his downfall. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The words are not there in detail, but the general line will be tyranny, conceit and incompetence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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