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词汇 self-regard
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Definition of self-regard in English:

self-regard

noun
mass noun
  • 1Regard or consideration for oneself; self-respect.

    自顾;自尊

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Teens who experienced their parents as insensitive and unavailable are at increased likelihood of depressed mood, poor self-regard, and aggression and hostility toward others.
    • A self-confessed hero-worshipper, he adroitly patched into a network of national self-regard and milked it for all it was worth.
    • His constant self-regard often led him to be less than fully aware of his fellow human beings.
    • He may be absolutely mild-mannered (even meek and wimpish) in most respects, but no original thinker or doer gets anywhere in any field without aggression and stupendously high self-regard.
    • For some, he is a hero, all the more admirable in his magisterial self-regard.
    • Keeping foreigners in cultural ghettos is thus a necessity for him, if he is to preserve his self-regard.
    Synonyms
    egocentrism, egotism, egomania, introversion, self-seeking, self-serving, self-obsession, self-absorption, self-interest, self-love
    1. 1.1 Conceit; vanity.
      自负;虚荣
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her memoir bubbles with self-regard, and her ego may have caused her to misunderstand some events in her life.
      • They sat there, their laughter tinkling with self-regard, sublimely confident that everyone was looking at them and wanted to be them.
      • We need a disposal service for our collective neuroses, something to clear away the rubbish of our self-regard and pomposity.
      • What is harder to change are institutional smugness and self-regard.
      • The position reeks of myopia, self-regard and opportunism.
      • The same self-regard is said to entice people to choose life partners who look and think like themselves.
      • The greatest obstacle to our progress in love is our own self-love, our own ego and our self-regard.
      • That applying to kindergarten should become such a cutthroat business is doubtless an only-in-New-York phenomenon, intertwined with New Yorkers' considerable self-regard.
      • Now a roster of full-time co-presenters serves to dilute his self-regard.
      Synonyms
      conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, narcissism, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, self-obsession, self-centredness, egotism, egoism, egocentrism, egomania

Derivatives

  • self-regarding

  • adjective ˌsɛlfrɪˈɡɑːdɪŋˌsɛlfrəˈɡɑrdɪŋ
    • Characterized by regard or consideration for oneself; self-centred.

      自顾;自尊

      the article is horribly smug and self-regarding
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As I've said before, I think there are some people on the left who want to be that fervent, self-regarding minority.
      • I have warned France about their self-regarding complacency and explained to them that they have become hypnotised by their own reputation, playing as if the opposition should stand back in awe and give them space to show their skills.
      • Unlike a lot of more vain, self-regarding actors, she finds it impossible to conceal her vulnerability.

Definition of self-regard in US English:

self-regard

nounˈˌself rəˈɡärdˈˌsɛlf rəˈɡɑrd
  • 1Regard or consideration for oneself; self-respect.

    自顾;自尊

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His constant self-regard often led him to be less than fully aware of his fellow human beings.
    • Teens who experienced their parents as insensitive and unavailable are at increased likelihood of depressed mood, poor self-regard, and aggression and hostility toward others.
    • For some, he is a hero, all the more admirable in his magisterial self-regard.
    • Keeping foreigners in cultural ghettos is thus a necessity for him, if he is to preserve his self-regard.
    • He may be absolutely mild-mannered (even meek and wimpish) in most respects, but no original thinker or doer gets anywhere in any field without aggression and stupendously high self-regard.
    • A self-confessed hero-worshipper, he adroitly patched into a network of national self-regard and milked it for all it was worth.
    Synonyms
    egocentrism, egotism, egomania, introversion, self-seeking, self-serving, self-obsession, self-absorption, self-interest, self-love
    1. 1.1 Conceit; vanity.
      自负;虚荣
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We need a disposal service for our collective neuroses, something to clear away the rubbish of our self-regard and pomposity.
      • The same self-regard is said to entice people to choose life partners who look and think like themselves.
      • That applying to kindergarten should become such a cutthroat business is doubtless an only-in-New-York phenomenon, intertwined with New Yorkers' considerable self-regard.
      • The position reeks of myopia, self-regard and opportunism.
      • Now a roster of full-time co-presenters serves to dilute his self-regard.
      • What is harder to change are institutional smugness and self-regard.
      • They sat there, their laughter tinkling with self-regard, sublimely confident that everyone was looking at them and wanted to be them.
      • Her memoir bubbles with self-regard, and her ego may have caused her to misunderstand some events in her life.
      • The greatest obstacle to our progress in love is our own self-love, our own ego and our self-regard.
      Synonyms
      conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, narcissism, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, self-obsession, self-centredness, egotism, egoism, egocentrism, egomania
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