Her conceit about her beauty angered many people.

她对美丽感到负，这惹怒了许多人。

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.

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

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.

但不要错误或负地认为，我们社会原本就应该推崇我们刚好大量拥有这种天赋。

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

那么，她决不能奉承他聪明，使他更加洋洋得意。

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，他充勇气，有干劲，精力充沛，很顽皮（不能称得上是负），一听到这个任务就急着要出发了。

If you've seen a narcissist, maybe you've seen that they almost swagger, oozing conceit and arrogance with every breath.

如果你见过恋者，也许你就见过他们趾高气扬了，每口呼吸中都透露着负与傲慢。

The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.

夜晚躺在床上时候，各种离奇怪诞幻想纷至沓来。

This is a cunning conceit, though it sometimes means that broader issues emerge only piecemeal.

这是一种别出心裁巧思，但这种结构也导致有时更宏大问题只能零零碎碎地呈现。

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。

So that is the conceit of activist investors like Elliott.

这正是像 Elliott 这样激进投资者策略。

Its flipside — complacency and conceit — is more damaging still.

它反——和负——却更具破坏性。

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.

你送过来一首很好诗，给本科生诗社，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比附，那信听着就像一首莎士比亚商籁诗中一段，被转为小调式似。

Jo took him at his word, for she coolly turned round and studied him — a proceeding which would have much surprised him, had he known it, for the worthy Professor was very humble in his own conceit.

乔把他话听进去了，冷静地转而研究起他来——这个做法如果被他知道了，一定会不胜惊讶，因为这位可尊敬教授在我评价上是极为谦逊。

Darkened Oona comes to notice " finer gradations in the texture of someone's skin and the shape of their cheekbones and the nature of their hair, " but this somehow leads to a conceit comparing people to trees.

黑肤乌娜开始注意到“某人皮肤纹理、颧骨形状和发质细微变化”，但这不知怎导致了一种把人比作树负。

So does the eerie central conceit of the talking, walking puppet, lively yet not wholly alive, and the attendant issue of what makes a " real boy" .

还在于它通过这个会说话、会走路、活泼但并不完全活着木偶所形成怪异中心构想，以及随之而来问题：如何才能成为一个“真正男孩”。

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，" 她用特别讽刺口吻大声说，" 当然啦，我什么也没干！"

Right, right, right. - Or be nice, or just... - Well, that's the conceit of the novel too, and it's very effective.

对，对，对。- 或者友善点，或者只是… … - 嗯，这也是小说艺术效果，而且非常有效。

Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.

我双手痉挛地紧抓着舵柄，但是在狂乱幻想中，那舵柄不知怎么，好像被施了魔法，居然倒转过来。

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

还有一件事，我真不好意思说出口；尊夫人有一点儿小脾气，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。”

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

实际上，嬷嬷把时间都用来给她骄傲负泼冷水。