查询词典 vain

In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening.

耶2：30我责打你们的儿女、是徒然的。他们不受惩治。

I looked in vain for any discussion of what constitutes human dignity, any suggestion that conception outside the womb might be tampering with a fundamental, even sacred, process, one which debases and cheapens the mystery at the start of life.

是什么构成了人类的尊严？宫外受孕可能会对基本的、甚至神圣的过程产生损害，会降低和削弱生命之始的神秘，作者对此有何建议？我试图在书中寻找答案，但是作者根本没有做此讨论。

They became vain in their own conceits because they chose to be great rather than humble.

他们充满自负，却成了虚无，因为他们只求伟大，而不愿谦逊。

They became vain in their own conceits because they chose to be great rather than humble.

因为他们只愿为大，不愿自卑，结果，幻灭在他们的想象中(参罗 1：21)。

Hegglund, as he could see, was vain and noisy and foolishDDa person who could be taken in and conciliated by a little flattery

他看得出，赫格伦爱虚荣，吵吵闹闹，糊里糊涂，一顶高帽子就能叫他上当，把他抓在手掌心里。

But, as always, there are two sides to every story, so we will watch closely to see what fairy tales the EC concocts in a vain attempt to debunk the long-held beliefs of the former CEO of MySQL, the unequivocal statement of the CEO of Ingres,***the open-source record itself***,***the public-record status of the MySQL code***, and the unbiased and blistering opinion of Gartner distinguished analyst Feinberg, all of which indicate that--at least in this case--the EC couldn't ***find its own backside*** with two hands, a flashlight, and a map.

但正如往常一样，每个故事都有两个方面，所以我们会密切关注欧盟委员会怎样自圆其说，怎样徒劳无功地驳斥MySQL前首席执行官长期所持的看法、Ingres首席执行官意思明确的言论、***开源记录本身***、***MySQL代码的公共记录身份***，还有Gartner知名分析师Feinberg客观而尖锐的观点，这一切无不表明：欧盟委员会无法凭借双手、手电筒和地图就能***找到自己的屁股/后背？***，至少在这起案子中是这样。

The playfulness of "Digital Cubes" does not try to disguise its symbolic parallel to meaningful social interaction; while "Wave Bubble" examines the boundaries of privacy in a conglomerated, technologically intrusive environment,"Freedom Flies" proposes alternative models for social awareness and provides new ways for information freedom and democratization. In the same vain is a suit of software tools called "Open Government Information Awareness" designed to monitor government performances allowing everybody to access official data sets and build profiles of those in the government, reversing the course of big-brother's control on the individuals. Also included in MIT's exhibit is "ScreamBody", a wearable space for screaming. ScreamBody silences the screams so the person may feel free to vocalize without fear of environmental retaliation, and at the same time records these for later release where, when, and how the person chooses.

趣味十足的&数字立方&并不掩饰其社会互动的象征意义；而&飘动的泡沫&则检视了在科技日益无所不在的环境里个人隐私的存在界限；作品&自由飞翔&无疑为民众的信息自由意识和民主化提供了新的选择模式；同样，为监督政府行为而设计的以便于民众获取官方数据的成套软件工具&开放政府信息的觉醒意识&则是个人对政府信息强权控制的反叛；当然还有麻省理工学院的&呐喊的身体&，一个可佩带的用于呐喊的装置，&呐喊的身体&能够对喊叫进行消音处理，能够让喊叫者不必担心周围环境受到呐喊声音的打扰而自由地放声喊叫；并且能够同时记录这些声音，用户可以根据自己的需要任何时间、任何地点都可以再次释放这些喊叫声。

An ideal utopia for those living in modernized and rapidly changing cosmopolitan cities such as Seoul, Beijing and New York, connoting specific images such as comfort of life, materialistic abundance, political power, is within the new city which is just across the river, not a vain quest.

而乌托邦的理想对于那些生活在如首尔、北京、纽约这样现代化世界大都市中的人们来说，乌托邦的概念隐含着特殊的寓意，如舒适的生活，物质的充足，权力的拥有，这些不是什么徒劳的找寻，而是附带在在越过江水便可到达的彼岸新乡中。

I cudgelled my brains for some time in vain; but at last I had it.

我在那些时间徒然的敲打自己的脑袋；但是最后我放弃了。

Home! Sweet, sweet Home3An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain

对一个离乡背井的游子，再华丽的光辉，也是徒然闪烁

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。