vanity 词态变化
复数: vanities;
vanity 中文词源
vanity 自负来自vain,自负的，虚无的，徒劳的，词源同vainglory.
vanity 英文词源
- vanity
- vanity: see vain
- vanity (n.)
- c. 1200, "that which is vain, futile, or worthless," from Old French vanite "self-conceit; futility; lack of resolve" (12c.), from Latin vanitatem (nominative vanitas) "emptiness, aimlessness; falsity," figuratively "vainglory, foolish pride," from vanus "empty, vain, idle" (see vain). Meaning "self-conceited" in English is attested from mid-14c. Vanity table is attested from 1936. Vanity Fair is from "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678).
vanity 英文释义
- 1. feelings of excessive pride
- 2. the quality of being valueless or futile;
- "he rejected the vanities of the world"
- 3. the trait of being vain and conceited
- 4. low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
vanity 双语例句
- 1. Frank Deford is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine.
- 弗兰克·德福特是杂志《名利场》的特约编辑。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Men who use steroids are motivated by sheer vanity.
- 使用类固醇的男人纯粹是受虚荣心的驱使。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. A man's vanity is actually in proportion to his ignorance.
- 一个人的虚荣心实际上是和他的愚蠢程度成正比.
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- 4. The woman is always feeling after vanity.
- 这女人一贯追求虚荣.
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- 5. His vanity increased with years.
- 他的虚荣心随着年龄增长而增加.
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vanity 实用场景例句
- She had no personal vanity (= about her appearance) .
- 她对自己的相貌毫不自负。
牛津词典
- the vanity of human ambition in the face of death
- 个人抱负在死亡面前的微不足道
牛津词典
- Politics is too often concerned only with the personal vanities of politicians.
- 政治常常仅与政界人士的个人虚荣有关。
牛津词典
- Men who use steroids are motivated by sheer vanity...
- 使用类固醇的男人纯粹是受虚荣心的驱使。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- With my usual vanity, I thought he might be falling in love with me.
- 由于我一贯的虚荣心作祟，我以为他可能爱上了我。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- But vanity was stronger.
- 可是,虚荣心毕竟更有力量.
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- Her sarcasm wounded his vanity.
- 她挖苦的语言刺伤了他的虚荣心.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Normal coning is less a treatment for infertility than a treatment for vanity.
- 正常的克隆不是为了治疗不孕,到是满足了虚荣.
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- It evidently pained his vanity to be beholden to the orphan for succor.
- 显然,向一个孤儿的救济表示感谢,伤到了他的虚荣心.
辞典例句
- The woman is always feeling after vanity.
- 这女人一贯追求虚荣.
《简明英汉词典》
- He paused, waving his hand to signify the vanity of the more that might be said.
- 他停顿下来, 挥舞着手,使他的话显得更加虚无飘渺.
辞典例句
- His handsome appearance feeds into his vanity.
- 英俊的外表满足了他的虚荣心.
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- His vanity increased with years.
- 他的虚荣心随着年龄增长而增加.
《简明英汉词典》
- Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.
- 把虚荣加在一个智力薄弱的人的头上,是会发生各种危险的.
辞典例句
- I say this without vanity.
- 我这样说并不是虚夸.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I say that this also is vanity.
- 我说,这也是虚空.
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- Vanity can never be completely dissociated in high office from the perception of national interest.
- 一个身居高位的人,他的虚荣心从来不能同他对国家利益的认识完全分开.
辞典例句
- There is no vanity in that.
- 这和自负没有关系.
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- This young gentleman had fired his inclination as much as he had my vanity.
- 这位年轻公子不仅引起我的虚荣心,而且也激动了他自己的情欲.
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- Before the advent of male vanity , the local barbershop used to be a regaling hotspot.
- 在男士们的还没有虚荣心以前, 当地的理发店曾是一个令人愉快的热闹地儿.
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- I have done so from necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity.
- 我是不得已才这样做的, 老实说, 并非出自虚荣.
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- Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help passing by in a beautiful vessel.
- 随后,爱决定向乘坐着漂亮巨轮的虚荣求助,爱护喊道:“虚荣,请救救我! ”
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- Vanity is the great flaw in the character of many women.
- 爱慕虚荣是很多女性性格中的重大缺陷.
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- Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher , vanity of vanities ; all is vanity.
- 传道者说, 虚空的虚空, 虚空 的虚空.凡事都是虚空.
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- I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat, Vanity answered.
- 爱情啊,我不能帮你. 你全身都湿了会把我的船弄脏的.
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- The girl's vanity surprised me.
- 这个女孩子的虚荣心使我吃惊.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Vanity and virtue do not go together.
- 虚荣与美德不是共生物.
《简明英汉词典》
- A vanity press published his novel but only a few copies were sold.
- 一家由作者自负出版费用的出版社出版了他的小说,但仅卖出了几本.
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- They are vanity, the work of errors : in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- 都是虚无的, 是迷惑人的工作,到追讨的时候,必被除灭.
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