For God hates utterlyThe bray of bragging tongues.
— Sophocles  ·  Conceit

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bray [[brei]] 词频5
n. 驴叫声, 喇叭声\\nv. 叫, 嘶叫
近义：mill, pound, powder, pulverize, triturate, crunch
bragging
n. 吹牛
近义：immodesty, insolence, jactitation, arrogance, ostentation, pedanticism 反义：humbleness, lowliness, meekness, low, lowly, meek
hates
v. 憎恨( hate的第三人称单数 ); 讨厌; 不愿; 为…感到抱歉
tongues
n. 语言( tongue的名词复数 ); 舌头; 舌状物; 鞋舌

📜 Sophocles 的更多名言

"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
"Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it."
"One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love."
"The end excuses any evil."
"The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach."
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can beWhen there's no help in truth!"
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🏷 更多「Conceit」名言

"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."
— Epictetus
"The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else."
— John Blake
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
— Bernard Bailey
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
— Thomas Carlyle
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
— Aesop
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
— Joseph Addison
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