Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.

那么，她决不能奉承他的聪明，使他更加洋洋得意。

Her conceit about her beauty angered many people.

他对己的美丽感到，这惹怒了许多人。

Oosing conceit and arrogance with every breath.

每口呼吸中都透露着傲慢。

Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability.

既然有了这种轻信的人, 那就不能把这种奇想一概看成为毫无一点迷信的可能了。

The most grotesque and 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。

He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.

他严肃对待这种荣誉，不骄傲大，好像这不过是他的本份。

A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.

怀着一种有损无益的奇想的人，哪怕看到皇座上高踞着一个神活现的小吏，也往往一定要认为非常之不顺眼。

I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

他们教我要学这个规矩那个规矩，又让我学会了他们的傲慢大。

In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.

实际上，嬷嬷把时间都用来给她的骄傲泼冷水。

But for the moment Wendy was shocked. " You conceit [braggart], " she exclaimed, with frightful sarcasm; " of course I did nothing" !

这可让温迪吃惊不小。 " 你这个大狂，" 她用特别讽刺的口吻大声说，" 当然啦，我什么也没干！"

And, if I may mention so delicate a subject, endeavour to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.

有一件事，我真不好意思说出口；尊夫人有一点儿小脾，好象是高大，又好象是不懂礼貌，你也得尽力帮助她克制一下。”

His writing is elegant and urbane, full of paradoxes, aphorisms and conceits: The sky has powdered the taiga, shaking velvety down over the vert-de-bronze of the cedars.

他的作品语言优美、雅致，充满悖论、各种金句、天马行空的幻想：天空粉饰那针叶林，轻柔地散落在青绿杉树之上。

We have heard of Moab's pride— how great is her arrogance! — of her conceit, her pride and her insolence; but her boasts are empty.

我们听说摩押人骄傲，是极其骄傲；听说他狂妄、骄傲、忿怒，他夸大的话是虚空的。

But it's a mistake and a conceit to suppose that we deserve, in the first place, a society that values the qualities we happen to have in abundance.

但不要错误或地认为，我们的社会原本就应该推崇我们刚好大量拥有的这种天赋。

I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these subjects.

即使如此，我也找不到蔑视他们的理由。 善良的基督徒们啊，我们应该慈悲为怀，不要因为人类成员中的一些人有些别的什么想法，我们就以为高人一等。

As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

我脑子里总免不了想起一些苦痛的事情，实在不能不想，也不应该不想。我虽然并不主张私，可是事实上却私了一辈子。

You send me a very nice poem, of the undergraduate school of verse. I reply by a letter of fantastic literary conceits like a passage from one of Shakespeare's sonnets, transposed to a minor key.

你送过来一首很好的诗，给本科生诗社的，要我审核，我在回信中兴之所至地作了一些文学上俏皮诙谐的比附，那信听着就像一首莎士比亚商籁诗中的一段，被转为小调式似的。

As he was, like many squirrels, full of courage and dash and energy and excitement and mischief (not to say conceit) , he no sooner heard it than he was eager to be off.

像许多松鼠一样，他充满勇，有干劲，精力充沛，很顽皮（不能称得上是），一听到这个任务就急着要出发了。

When I got home mother called me into her room. She looked as if she had been crying. She said I gave her a great deal of pain by my self-will and ill temper and conceit.

当我回到家, 妈妈把我叫到她的房间。看样子她今天哭过。她告诉我, 我变得性格叛逆、牌暴躁、傲十足, 这让她痛苦不堪。