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vanity n.1.空虛;無用,無益[無聊]的事物[行為等]。2.虛...

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One may see by this that she had a wise and thoughtful head, for all there was so much lightness and vanity in it . 你可以從這看得出她腦子里雖然有些輕浮和虛榮的思想,究竟還是聰明和肯用心的。

And to her, who was overflowing with vanity and self-conceit, this was the last offense, and she could not forgive him . 對她這樣虛榮、自大的人來說,這是最忌諱的事了,她怎么也不能原諒他。

Let me swell out the causes ever so ingeniously, they all center in this at last-my vanity was flattered . 我巧妙地把所有的原因都說出來,他們最終都集中精力到這上面:我的虛榮受到了恭維。

Then examining the mesh of events in her own life, she seemed to see the vanity of her father's pride . 她細細琢磨自己生平中所遭遇的往事塵網,于是就好象看見了她父親那種驕傲的空洞虛幻。

Their vanity was in such good order, that they seemed to be quite free from it, and never gave themselves airs . 她們雖然自命不凡,但表現得體,好象毫無不凡之感,從不裝腔作勢。

I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me . 我沒有理由想入非非,自鳴得意,以為每一個接近我的人都會愛上我。

Vanity can never be completely dissociated in high office from the perception of national interest . 一個身居高位的人,他的虛榮心從來不能同他對國家利益的認識完全分開。

The self-abasement of his companion completely got the better of the passing feeling of the personal vanity . 伙伴的一番自謙的話挫敗了他一時的虛榮心,使他無詞可答了。

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what would have others think of us . 驕傲多半不外乎我們自己的估價,虛榮卻牽涉到我們希望別人對我們的看法。

He was not thinking about me; both his psychological attention and his vanity had dropped away . 他沒有想到我;他對我心理活動的關切,以及自己的虛榮感都已經擯棄。

He felt reasonably sure that her vanity would not allow her free reign to public utterances . 他很有理由相信,她的虛榮心決不會讓她放縱到公開宣揚的程度。

She met ladislaw with that exquisite smile of goodwill which is unmixed with vanity . 她露出和藹可親的優美笑容,沒有一點妄自尊大的樣子,迎著拉迪斯拉夫。

Gazing up to the darkness i saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity . 我抬頭疑視著黑暗,感到自己是一個被虛榮心驅使和撥弄的可憐蟲。

Nothing i write will make any sense at allonly an old woman's ceaseless vanity . 這些,無非是一個老婦的言過其實的饒舌,寫下來似乎沒有意義。

The stories of violence and vanity in his closing years cluster thick upon his memory . 關天他晚年暴戾和虛夸的故事,在對他的回憶中是很多的。

Her sensitiveness on some points was such that it might have been misread as vanity . 對于某些東西,她的感覺都敏銳得會讓人誤解成她過分賣弄。

He knew by now that men were liars, he knew how extravagant was their vanity . 如今他已經知道人總是自欺欺人,他懂得人的虛榮心有多么驚人。

As he had no estate of his own, my words nettled a very childish vanity he had . 因為他自己也沒有田莊,我的話引起他的非常孩子氣的虛榮心。

I've said i did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then . 我已經說過我不愛她,而且時時以傷害她的虛榮心為樂。