conceit

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conceit 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 自负, 空想, 狂妄

英文释义

n. an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things

n. a witty or ingenious turn of phrase

n. an artistic device or effect

n. the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride

conceit 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 conceit 在自然语境里怎么用：

At first, the novel’s conceit seems familiar: a series of scattered, representative lives cohering into a kind of collective story.

—— 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Numerous conservatives have employed other conceits to illustrate the left’s supposed control of American life: “The Cathedral,” the “long march through the institutions,” the “Flight 93 election,” and so on.

—— From Mainstream to MAGA in Two Easy Steps

Autofiction performs (and at this point provokes) a kind of exhaustion not just with the conceits and contrivances of fiction, but with the often rather privileged, and rather boring, life of the writer.

—— Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine — across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat

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