pride的意思|pride的解释-里氏词典

pride [praid]

n. 骄傲, 自尊心, 自豪, 精华, 勇气

vt. 以...自豪

pride

[ noun ]

a feeling of self-respect and personal worth

<noun.feeling>

satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements

<noun.feeling>

he takes pride in his son's success

the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards

<noun.attribute>

a group of lions

<noun.group>

unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

be proud of

<verb.emotion>

congratulate

plume

He prides himself on making it into law school

Pride \Pride\, n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); --
called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}.

Pride \Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i
honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf.
W. prydus comely. See {Proud}.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate
self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own
superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which
manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and
often in contempt of others.

Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan.
iv. 37.

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
--Franklin.

2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is
beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble
self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing;
proud delight; -- in a good sense.

Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
--Goldsmith.

A people which takes no pride in the noble
achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve
anything worthy to be remembered with pride by
remote descendants. --Macaulay.

3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or
arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;
insolent exultation; disdain.

Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps.
xxxvi. 11.

That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.

4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or
self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem,
or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty,
ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser.

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech.
ix. 6.

A bold peasantry, their country's pride.
--Goldsmith.

5. Show; ostentation; glory.

Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
--Shak.

6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;
as, to be in the pride of one's life.

A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.

7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits;
mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an
excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]

{Pride of India}, or {Pride of China}. (Bot.) See {Margosa}.

{Pride of the desert} (Zo["o]l.), the camel.

Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness;
lordliness; loftiness.

Usage: {Pride}, {Vanity}. Pride is a high or an excessive
esteem of one's self for some real or imagined
superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc.
Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted,
etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride;
but one may have great pride without displaying it.
Vanity, which is etymologically ``emptiness,'' is
applied especially to the exhibition of pride in
superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.

Pride \Pride\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Priding}.]
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to
plume; -- used reflexively. --Bp. Hall.

Pluming and priding himself in all his services.
--South.

Pride \Pride\, v. i.
To be proud; to glory. [R.]

The question from Jessica Lee of USA Today about the handsome teen-ager Bush calls his "pride and joy" struck a nerve in what was otherwise an unflappable performance by the early-rising president.
"I want to drop as much money into that mall as possible." Marketers around the country, in fact, are beginning to capitalize on a renewed cultural pride among blacks.
The rights was well received in the City and it gave all of us a sense of pride. 'The more fundamental thing was George's legacy - it didn't all collapse when George himself suddenly disappeared.
The head of a Temple University group that advocates "white pride" says the organization isn't racist, but was formed to balance the "pro-minority" stance taken by school officials.
We celebrate our pride.
Dr. Willem Pieterse, a court-appointed psychiatrist who examined the suspect, said Strydom showed symptoms of being a psychopath and had expressed pride in what he had done.
If Williams/Renault told Mansell he was 'excused driving' at Jerez, Suzuka or Adelaide, then the driver was to receive an additional Dollars 3m for hurt pride. Grand Prix racing remains an enigma.
"Although we come by success stories every so often, most of the feedback is devastating not only to individual persons and families but also to our national pride," she said.
I had a lot of pride in it.
While still tiny compared with Chicago's futures exchanges, Soffex nonetheless is the pride of the big Swiss banks who coughed up nearly $100 million and hired U.S. consultants Arthur Andersen & Co. to set it up.
His maverick foreign policy created a new pride in a country accustomed to feeling like a poor cousin of the rich West.
Others have found hope in their solidarity _ particularly in the Eastern and miners' strikes _ but will spend labor's traditional holiday wondering if their jobs are the price they will pay for their pride and determination.
Enter Mr. Farley in a voice-over: "Just imagine joining a team where the coach doesn't care about you, where no one thinks about your working conditions, your health, your pride."
NO-FRILLS BASEBALL: the detroit tigers took pride in not offering gimmicks like free radios and watches to their old-fashioned fans.
Q. Is there any one area, case of law, that you will point to with pride from your administration when your opponents attempt to detract from your regime? A. Well, I think there are many of them.
At one point, Orwell takes justifiable pride over official British permission for the communist newspaper Daily Worker to circulate once again.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Jr.'s selection as the Democratic vice presidential nominee sent local pride surging in his hometown 10 miles from the Mexican border, where the family name stands for wealth and power.
With a touch of national pride, leaders subjected Socialist brothers to customs barriers.
China, which used to pride itself on its free education, has begun forcing schools to set up small factories, restaurants or hotels to pay for themselves.
They have to be capable of matching the best Europe has to offer. In Scotland, football is a matter of great national pride.
Employment going the wrong way. This pride in our country down, the military weak.
He made a point of giving human rights a "pride of place" on his agenda in all his sessions with Soviet leaders.
By afternoon, Mr. Neigum, pride of Medicine Hat, Canada, has hit his stride.
Farrakhan drew a storm of criticism in 1984 for calling Judaism a "gutter religion" and making other remarks about Jews that his supporters said wre taken out of context in his campaign to foster black pride.
No other document has been given such a long consultation." Those who approach history as a force in molding national pride and identity view the curriculum reform as a means of regaining the ground that has been slipping away since the liberal 1960s.
"It's a source of national pride," he said. "It tells them, in terms of natural resources, `we're pretty special.'
It was the kind of sweet noise Norman Corwin has taken pleasure and pride in provoking for five decades.
Yet it is Mr Kinnock's personality that continues to provoke unease. His Tuscan holidays, his obvious delight in theatre and music, his fondness for the well-chosen word show an unashamed pride in middle-class tastes.
He had lost his taste for a hamburger. "Forget it," he said, swallowing his pride instead.
Many Arab Americans share that niggling pride in Saddam for, in their view, paying back the Western powers which humiliated the Arabs for decades.

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