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

• 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。
• Everyone, even people who pretend to be above such vanities, likes to think they are special.
  每个人都喜欢觉得自己是特别的，即便是那些假装不在乎这些虚名的人也不例外。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Try to put vanities, bath temperature water, such as water turbidity found to water until the clear-up.
  要试放面盆、浴缸的冷热水，如发现水质混浊，须放水，直到水清为止。
• Our many vanities and frailties.
  我们的许多虚荣心和软弱性。
• But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  他们尽都是畜类，是愚昧的。偶像的训诲算什么呢。
• 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。
• 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。