vanities

英 [ˈvænɪtiz]

美 [ˈvænətiz]

n.  自负; 自大; 虚荣; 虚荣心; (尤指与其他重大事物相比)渺小，无所谓，不重要; 自负的行为; 虚荣的态度; 过分的骄傲
vanity的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 虚荣(心);自负
  If you refer to someone'svanity, you are critical of them because they take great pride in their appearance or abilities.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• What dark, cruel comments upon life and vanities.
  对于人生，对于我们所追求的虚荣，真是辛辣的讽刺。
• Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain?
  外邦人虚无的神中有能降雨的吗。
• Our many vanities and frailties.
  我们的许多虚荣心和软弱性。
• They renounce the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests.
  他们放弃社交、城市、感官的享受、快乐、虚荣、傲气和利益。
• This is why, despite the best efforts of the administration to set alight again the bonfire of credit vanities, there will be a return to thrift, driven as much by weak credit demand as impaired supply of it.
  这也说明了，为何任凭奥巴马政府尽最大努力重燃信贷“虚荣的篝火”，但在信贷需求疲弱和信贷供应受到削弱的双重驱动下，美国人仍将回归节俭。
• The absurdest of absurd vanities: it is the love of pleasure, not the love of happiness.
  是荒谬绝伦的逢场作戏，是寻欢作乐的爱，不是幸福的爱。
• Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
  传道者说，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。
• OVE Decors is a large Canadian company specializing in the bathroom equipment and selling bathroom vanities, showers, shower columns, baths and saunas throughout the USA and Canada.
  OVE装饰是一家专攻浴室设备的加拿大公司，在美国和加拿大出售卫浴、沭浴房和桑拿房。
• Purchase of ceramic, marble and wooden vanities for bathroom and kitchen.
  沙特客户求购浴室及厨房用陶瓷、大理石及木质台面。
• We are watching a bonfire of the old orthodoxies as well as of the vanities.
  我们正看到旧的正统学说和虚荣心被投入熊熊烈火。