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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    自滿,自大,自負[U]

                      His conceit is intolerable.

                      他的自負令人不能容忍。

          2.    幻想,奇想;(詩中)誇張的比喻[C]

          3.    個人意見(或想法)[C]

                      He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours.

                      他記下了閒暇時想到的一些看法。

          4.    好評[U]

                      I don't have much conceit of his poems.

                      我對他的詩作沒有什麼好評。





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–noun 

1. an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc. 

2. something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea: He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours. 

3. imagination; fancy. 

4. a fancy; whim; fanciful notion. 

5. an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature. 

6. the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic, esp. in poetry. 

7. a fancy, purely decorative article. 

8. British Dialect. 

　a. favorable opinion; esteem. 

　b. personal opinion or estimation.   

9. Obsolete. the faculty of conceiving; apprehension.  



–verb (used with object) 

10. to flatter (esp. oneself). 

11. British Dialect. to take a fancy to; have a good opinion of. 

12. Obsolete. 

　a. to imagine. 

　b. to conceive; apprehend. 

 

—Idiom

13. out of conceit with, displeased or dissatisfied with. 

—Synonyms 

1. self-esteem, vanity, egotism, complacency. See pride.



Pride, conceit, self-esteem, egotism, vanity, vainglory imply an unduly favorable idea of one's own appearance, advantages, achievements, etc., and often apply to offensive characteristics. 



Pride is a lofty (高聳的) and often arrogant assumption of superiority in some respect: Pride must have a [fal]l. 



Conceit implies an exaggerated estimate of one's own abilities or attainments, together with pride: blinded by conceit. 



Self-esteem may imply an estimate of oneself that is higher than that held by others: a ridiculous self-esteem. 



Egotism implies an excessive preoccupation with oneself or with one's own concerns, usually but not always accompanied by pride or conceit: His egotism blinded him to others' difficulties. 



Vanity implies self-admiration and an excessive desire to be admired by others: His vanity was easily flattered. 



Vainglory, somewhat literary, implies an inordinate and therefore empty or unjustified pride: puffed up by vainglory.



—Antonyms 

1. humility.





　And it falls, often. As a metaphor for artistic development, a celebrity impersonator (演員) who must ditch his costume and go his own way is a perilously maudlin conceit, especially if you read him as the director's stand-in. And given his prankster rep, Korine's biggest challenge to an already skeptical audience is the movie's sleeve-hearted sincerity.





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