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

• I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
  我恨恶那信奉虚无之神的人。我却倚靠耶和华。
• 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。
• 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。
• Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
  耶和华说，他们为什么以雕刻的偶像和外邦虚无的神惹我发怒呢。
• In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature.
  玛格丽特尽管有些小小的虚荣心，天性却很温柔纯洁。
• Our many vanities and frailties.
  我们的许多虚荣心和软弱性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。