vain
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虚荣的

常用释义

词性释义

adj.

虚荣的,自负的;徒劳的
例句
  • 全部
  • 虚荣的
  • 徒劳的
  • 自负的
  • 徒然的
  • 白费的
  • 爱慕虚荣的
  • 无用的
  • 虚浮的
He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come(= it was impossible).
他又问了她一次,徒然指望着能说服她来。
A tight noseband is a vain attempt to disguise the fact that your horse is not ready for the things you are asking him to do.
紧的鼻革是徒劳的掩饰,它只能说明你的马没有准备好去做你要求他做的事情。
For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.
如果他不希望那些死过的人还要复活,为亡者祈祷,便是一种多馀而糊涂的事。
Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!
现在长大了,为你;我坚强了,为你;我改变着,为你。只是我知道这一切都是徒然!
试图保持生活的中立和淡漠,是不明智的,徒劳的。
All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.
我们极力劝说那位老人离开那栋危房,老人就是不听。
We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.
我们一直在等她回来看望我们,但我们白等了。【高考链接】
The United States attorney-general is suing her as she sits, in a vain attempt to make her dissolve herself into constituent companies.
美国联邦检察长此刻正在起诉她,要让她把新泽西公司分解成系列子公司,而她却还在坐童车,岂不徒劳?
A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.
一个加纳家庭暂时收留了他。夸西等待姨母的消息,可杳无音信。
The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.
半个多世纪以来,朝鲜半岛南、北两国都宣称致力于朝鲜民族统一,但至今未果。
For want of a bit of incriminating proof was such a young, silent, vain crook as this to be allowed to escape?
难道为了缺少一点点证明他罪行的证据,就让这个年轻,不肯开腔,爱虚荣的骗子逃脱么?
He was a man of a good and kindly nature, a little vain and self-important, but earnest and upright, and possessed of very fair abilities.
柯林斯为人善良仁慈,虽然有点虚荣心和自大,但办事认真直率,能力很强。
我在她身上花了那麽多时间,但是完全白费了。
Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.
以你目前这个模样,却想到处传播你的儒学思想,肯定是处处碰壁,徒有满腔热情也是枉然的。
'Oh, if she's vain, Billy Smallbury, I'll never be able to look at her! I'm such a shy man, as you know! 'said the other.
唉,比利·斯摩伯里,要是她很自以为是,我就连正眼看她也不敢了!你知道,我是一个害羞的人!
Paddy jumped to his feet, his face stupefied; he had never heard Fee take the name of the Lord in vain before.
帕迪跳起来了,他的面容发呆。从前他从未听见菲这样漫不经心地亵渎上帝的圣名。
Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the media mogul was engaged in a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle" .
上周,Twitter创办人之一BizStone称,这位传媒巨头是在反其道而行之,这种行为无异于把放出来的精灵重新放回神灯中一样毫无意义。
Schumacher almost edged Barrichello into the pit wall as he tried in vain to stop his former team mate passing him for P10 late in the race.
大舒马赫几乎将巴里切罗挤到PIT墙,他企图阻止他的前队友在上周的比赛中超过他获得第十。
But others, which were preserved naturally in dry sand, prove the product must also have been used in everyday life by the vain Egyptians.
但是另一些在干燥的沙子中自然保存的木乃伊,可以证明爱美的埃及人在日常生活中也一定使用这种产品。
Often I even, in vain, desire to turn the mirror upside down and seek my own glory.
我常常甚至是徒劳地希望把镜子倒过来,寻求自己的荣耀。
While the count was being turned over, one of his arms dragged helplessly behind, and he made a vain effort to pull it after him.
当众人使伯爵翻过身去的时候,他的一只手软弱无力地向后垂下,他用力地想把自己的这只手拿过去,但是无能为力,白费劲。
In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
我责打你们的儿女是徒然的,他们不受惩治。你们自己的刀吞灭你们的先知,好像残害的狮子。
But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.
但这都是徒劳无益的,我有种极度可怕、极度可耻的失败的感觉。
Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.
弗洛伊德兰迪斯做了一些漏洞百出的辩解,说他服用的药物是为了疗伤,但所有这些都是徒劳的。语境。
He never once took the name of the lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor's ass.
他从不亵渎上帝的名字,从不和人通奸,从不想去勾引邻居的老婆。
“贝蒂”似乎只是一个噱头,白白被利用了一场,赢得一些无谓的口水和批判。
日复一日,他徒劳地等待着她的电话。
What was present to him everywhere was that for a man who had known what he had known the world was vulgar and vain.
对于一个有过象他那样经历的人说来,到处所见给他的印象无非是这个世界充满了庸俗与虚荣。
After trying in vain to control the unruly class, the young and inexperienced instructor had to admit that he was at eth end of his tether.
试图控制这个难弄的班级但不见生效后,这个缺乏经验的年轻教师不得不承认,他已无法可施。
they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.
作梦者所说的是假梦,他们白白地安慰人。所以众人如羊流离,因无牧人就受苦。
1·He was vain and bombastic.
他既虚荣又浮夸。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·He was self-important, vain and ignorant.
他自大、虚荣、而且无知。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy.
我认为他浅薄、虚荣、不可信。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·A humble man falls in love with himself; a vain man falls in love with his reflection.
一个谦虚的人爱上的是他自己;而一个虚荣的人爱上的却是自己的倒影。
5·Mary was not vain, and as she had never thought much of her looks, she was not greatly disturbed.
玛丽并不虚荣,她从来没有高估过自己的容貌,所以也没有觉得不高兴。
1·Evidently she was racking her head in vain--it seemed manifest that she must give the matter up.
显然,她徒劳地绞尽脑汁——显然她必须放弃这件事。
2·In the final chapter, “Markets Need Morals”, the reader looks in vain for a bit of detail about how such a code might be imposed.
在最后一章—“市场需要道德约束”—中,如果有读者试图寻找丝毫关于这种模式如何实现的细节阐述,那他注定是徒劳的。
3·She springs up to the window again, screaming for help in vain.
她再次冲到窗边,徒劳地喊叫,寻求帮助。
4·An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference, is unreasonable and vain.
试图保持生活的中立和淡漠,是不明智的,徒劳的。
5·Daily experience showed to all not hopelessly prejudiced men that all the attempts to deny this fundamental truth were vain.
只要没有因受到侵占而完全绝望的人都明白,日常经验在向他们表明,否认上述事实的所有企图都是徒劳的。
1·Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty.
伊莎贝尔曾是一个轻率的小傻瓜,自负而轻浮。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·She was very handsome, but so proud and vain that she could not endure that anyone should surpass her in beauty.
她非常好看,但是她如此的骄傲和自负,不能忍受任何人超过她的美丽。
3·She was very handsome, but so proud and vain that she could not endure that anyone should surpass her in beauty.
她非常的好看,但是她如此的骄傲和自负,她不能忍受任何人超过她的美丽。
4·Men are vain; they will check themselves out in the mirror.
男人们自负,他们只会在镜子前整理自己的衣装。
5·Most memorable of all is Toad - rich, vain, childish and prone to wrecking cars.
最无法忘怀的是蟾蜍先生——富有、自负、有点孩子气,且喜欢摆弄汽车。
1·He married his fourth wife, Susan, in the vain hope that she would improve his health.
他怀着她能改善自己健康的徒然希望娶了第4个妻子苏珊。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Some say that so many had perished during its construction, that no one dared halt the work and thereby admit that it had all been in vain.
有些人说在建造的过程中毁坏了这么多,使得没人敢停下工程并从而承认它全是徒然。
3·In vain you light your toilet lamp — it flickers and goes out in the wind.
你徒然点上晚妆的灯火——它颤摇着在风中熄灭了。
4·But the hope that keeps poor people in cities is not always vain.
但城市穷人所怀的希望也并非总是徒然。
5·Ye have said, it is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
你们说,事奉神是徒然的,遵守神所吩咐的,在万军之耶和华面前苦苦斋戒,有什么益处呢。
1·Our efforts were not in vain.; we didn't waste our energy.
我们的力气没有白费。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
2·Optimus: He will die in vain if we don't accomplish our mission.
擎天柱:如果我们不完成任务的话他的牺牲就白费了。
3·Their efforts were not in vain.
他们的努力没白费。
4·All the struggle we thought was all in vain.
我们所做的所有努力都是白费。
5·Excited at the same time, feel our efforts were not in vain.
兴奋不已的同时,觉得我们的付出没有白费。
1·From Carly Simon and her 1972 hit You're So Vain, to Taylor Swift and the songs she uses to *skewer her exes, music has been a way for women to express anger and frustration at the men.
从卡莉•西蒙以及她1972年的热门歌曲《你是如此爱慕虚荣》到泰勒•斯威夫特以及她用来抨击前任的歌曲,音乐已经成了女性表达对男性的愤怒和失望的途径。
2·Many vain young people are obsessed with fancy cars despite the fact that they are not rich.
如今许多爱慕虚荣的年轻人,尽管还不富裕,但却迷上了漂亮的小汽车。
3·This female colleague, more vain, self-centered, selfish is very heavy, so the female colleagues need to keep a safe distance from the.
这样的女同事,更多爱慕虚荣,自我为中心,私心很重,这样的女同事需要与之保持安全距离。
4·But he was, in any case, as vain as a peacock; that was why he had become a Magician.
不过,无论怎么说,他和孔雀一样爱慕虚荣,这是他为什么成为魔法师的原因。
5·Basically I think we are vain.
总的来说,我觉得我们都爱慕虚荣。
1·I was left cold and languid, full of vain regrets; in my revulsion I even felt a kind of pity for the weeping girl on the floor.
我只感到又冷又倦,心里满是无用的悔恨。内心感情突变之际,我甚至有点可怜在地上哭泣的那个姑娘。
2·The whole point isn't to be vain, but to find standard clothing that you can wear regularly that become somewhat of a uniform.
这个观点并不是无用的,而是要找到一套你能经常穿的标准服装,让它成为某种程度的制服。
3·Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile and whisper among themselves — 'Vain is this seeking! Unbroken perfection is over all!'
只在严静的夜里,众星微笑着互相低语说——“寻找是无用的,无缺的完美正笼盖着一切!”
4·The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain.
家族神像却只能谈诡异的事,行占卜的也只能见虚假的异象,诉说无用的梦,给人空洞的安慰。
5·Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile and whisper among themselves — 'Vain is this seeking! Unbroken perfection is over all!
只在严静的夜里,众星微笑着互相低语说——“寻找是无用的,无缺的完美正笼盖着一切!”
1·Anyone who pursue fame, should be timely forsake the vain glory, and a rare art show, in a timely manner.
凡是追求盛名的人,应当适时舍弃那些虚浮的荣耀,而表现出难得的艺术——及时而退。
2·Finally said to Philip, he felt tired of, don't want to continue this vain marriage life.
终于对菲说,他感觉厌倦,不愿再继续这种虚浮的婚姻生活。
3·Nobel this loud name recognizes is unchanging truth: refuse vain beautiful, accept the good mission, we will gain the history to our a fair position.
诺贝尔这个响亮的名字道出的是亘古不变的真理:拒绝虚浮的美丽,接受善美的使命,我们一定能得到历史给我们的一个公平的位置。
4·James 2:20 But wilt thou know, o vain man, that faith without works is dead?
雅2:20虚浮的人哪,你愿意知道没有行为的信心是死的吗?
5·He cannot enjoy their enjoyments: they weary him: they appear to him vain, unprofitable, and unworthy of an immortal being.
他不能享受他们的享乐:他们使他厌烦:对他看来,他们是虚浮的,无益的,不配得永恒生命的。
1·I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
你说,有打仗的计谋和能力。 我看不过是虚话,你到底倚靠谁,才背叛我呢。
2·If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
若有人自以为虔诚,却不勒住他的舌头,反欺哄自己的心,这人的虔诚是虚的。
3·Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war.
18:20 你说有打仗的计谋和能力,我看不过是虚话。
4·The concrete presentations of Tao are vain quiet, tranquilness, loneliness and non-action, which is the essential way that we should take.
虚静,恬淡,寂寞,无为是道的具体表现,也是我们应该效法的大本大宗。
5·Any one who bustles for or even exhausts his energy for the meaningless and vain shell, is the secular gentleman.
整天为了这个虚有的、无意义的躯壳而忙忙碌碌,殚精竭力的人,是世俗认定的君子。
常用短语
in vain
in vain - 徒然;无效
vain glory
vain glory - 虚荣
同义词
adj.
徒劳的;虚荣的;空虚的
同根词 (词根vain)
vainglorious adj 虚荣心强的;非常自负的
vainly adv 徒劳地;无益地;枉然地
vainglory n 虚荣;自负