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Vanity Pride 英 Vænəti] 美 Vænəti N.自负;虚荣心;无价值的东西;浮华 Achilles Heel

英语单词 vanity
英美音标 英 ['vænəti] 美 ['vænəti]
中文释义 n.自负;虚荣心;无价值的东西;浮华
英语例句 (1) Vanity is his Achilles' heel.
(2) He has many faults, but vanity is not one of them.
(3) His vanity brought his downfall.
(4) She married the rich man out of vanity.
(5) Let us abandon the vanity surface, with a rock and roll heart.
中文例句 (1) 虚荣自负是他的致命伤。
(2) 他有很多缺点,但并没有虚荣心。
(3) 他因虚荣心太重而垮台。
(4) 她出于虚荣心而嫁给了那个富人。
(5) 让我们抛弃浮华的表面,拥有一颗摇滚的心。
vocabulary简明 Vanity is the quality of being vain, or having a ridiculous amount of pride. If you have excessive vanity in your appearance, you probably spend long hours sitting at your vanity table doing your makeup or plucking your nose hairs.
vocabulary扩展 If you pride yourself on looking absolutely perfect and refuse to do any work that might dirty your clothes or mess up your hair, someone might accuse you of vanity. Often vanity is empty, like the emperor’s in The Emperor's New Clothes. If someone pays to have her own book published even though it’s really bad, we say it is a vanity printing.
柯林斯解释
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]虚荣(心);自负 If you refer to someone's vanity, you are critical of them because they take great pride in their appearance or abilities.
  [also N in pl]
  [disapproval]
  • 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。

  • 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。

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