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

• A Thought of the Double Themes in The Teacher in Ecclesiastes: A Wise Reason of Vanities
  虚空的智慧思辨&对《传道书》双重主题的思考
• One thing rather quenched the vanities: she had to wear her cousin's clothes.
  有件事不免有点挫伤她的虚荣心：她不得不穿她表姐的衣服。
• For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
  因他行了尼八的儿子耶罗波安所行的，犯他使以色列人陷在罪里的那罪，以虚无的神惹耶和华以色列神的怒气。
• Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
  传道者说，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely.
  艾美差不多被大家宠坏了，她的虚荣和自私也成正比例增长。
• And look at his own& how frivolous, how charged with mean vanities, how selfish, how empty, how ignoble!
  再看看他自己的生活&何等轻浮，充斥着庸俗的虚荣，何等自私，何等空虚，何等卑琐啊！
• But in the next century we'll BE able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-f0rms.
  但在下个世纪，我们将能从根本上改变我们的DNA，即在制造新的生命形式时对自己的理智和情感进行编码。