(noun.) the quality of being valueless or futile; 'he rejected the vanities of the world'.
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Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
It will be good for my vanity, I was getting too proud of my wig. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in Vanity Fair, which among you does not know and suffer under such benevolent despots? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Nevertheless, Mrs Plornish, with a pardonable vanity in that accomplishment of hers which made her all but Italian, stepped in as interpreter. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
These are the kinds of epitaphs which men pass over one another in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
To read were futile--to write, vanity indeed. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Pity the fallen gentleman: you to whom money and fair repute are the chiefest good; and so, surely, are they in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
The passion of vanity is so prompt, that it rouzes at the least call; while humility requires a stronger impulse to make it exert itself. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
It's all vanity,' said Mr. Stiggins. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
The stories of violence and vanity in his closing years cluster thick upon his memory. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I'm glad you're going to keep one or two vanities, just by way of specimens of the old Adam. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
And then you reckon to have so much knowledge; and i' my thoughts it's only superficial sort o' vanities you're acquainted with. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I had done with my poor man's touchy pride--I had done with all my little artist vanities. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Hitherto man has been living in a slum, amidst quarrels, revenges, vanities, shames and taints, hot desires, and urgent appetites. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I love not these vanities, which were unknown to my fathers when England was free. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
His dearest vanities, ambitious hopes, had all been here. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
One thing, however, rather quenched the vanities. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
These are vanities. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
A score of years hence that too, that milliner's wonder, will have passed into the domain of the absurd, along with all previous vanities. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Oh, my dear young friend,' replied Mr. Stiggins, 'all taps is vanities! 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.