查询词典 vanity

Was it all a silly vanity project, or is there a crack team of Chinese hiding out somewhere on Copacabana, preparing to nip across the Atlantic and snare the World Cup in four years' time?

那是一项愚蠢空虚的工程吗？抑或是他们已经是中国最好的球队正准备横渡大西洋在4年后的世界杯上一鸣惊人？

This would have been no serious hindrance on a week - day ; they would have clicked through it in their high pattens and boots quite unconcerned ; but on this day of vanity , this sun s - day , when flesh went forth to coquet with flesh while hypocritically affecting business with spiritual things ; on this occasion for wearing their white stockings and thin shoes , and their pink , white , and lilac gowns , on which every mud spot would be visible , the pool was an awkward impediment . they could hear the church - bell calling - as yet nearly a mile off

在平常的日子里，这并不是什么大不了的障碍她们都是穿的高底木头套鞋和靴子，可以满不在乎地从水中趟过去但是这天是礼拜天，是她们抛头露面的日子，她们口头说的是去进行精神上的陶冶，而实际上是去进行肉体征服肉体的谈情说爱这个时候她们都会穿上白色的袜子和轻俏的鞋，有的穿粉红的连衣裙，有的穿白色的连衣裙，有的穿淡紫色的连衣裙，只要上面溅上了一点儿泥都能被人看见这片水塘把她们挡住了，叫她们犯了难。

I get letters from Vanity Fair,Cosmopolitan etc.asking me for stories,articles,and serials,butam publishing nothing for six months or a year（afew stories sold to Scribner's the end of last year and one funny article out） because I know thatnow is a very crucial time and that it is much moreimportant for me to write in tranquility,trying towrite as well as I can,with no eye on any market,nor any thought of what the stuff willl bring,oreven if it can ever be published——than to fall intothe money making trap which handles American writers like the cornhusking machine handled mynoted relative's thumb .

我收到《名利场》、《世界主义者》等刊物来信约我写短篇小说、文章、连载，但我最近六个月或者可以说这一年都没有发表作品（年底为斯克里布纳的刊物写过几个短篇小说和一篇滑稽文章），因为我知道，现在是非常关键的时候，对我来说，安安静静地写作，尽可能写得更好，既不关心市场，也不考虑金钱能带来什么，甚至不考虑我的作品是否能出版——这一切比落入操纵美国作家们的赚钱陷阱重要得多，这个陷阱就像玉米脱壳机夺去了我那著名的亲戚的拇指。

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.

6愚蠢人的笑声无异荆棘在火中爆炸的声音。这也是空虚。

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

愚昧人的笑声，好像是锅下烧的荆棘爆声，也是虚空的。

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

7：6 愚昧人的笑声，好像锅下烧荆棘的爆声，这也是虚空。

If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.

人无论活了多大年纪，尽可享受各种福乐；但他应想到黑暗的日子还多，所发生的事，尽属虚幻。

Marsh and Bruce Carrick have often deliberately picked stories to surprise – the day Rommel, the Desert Fox, committed suicide, the Duchess of Richmond's ball three days before the Battle of Waterloo, attended by the Duke of Wellington and immortalised in Vanity Fair, Nelson joining the Navy at the age of twelve, and many more.

某一天谁被刺杀了，谁登基了，谁潜逃出境了；某个历史人物的诞生，从政，遭弹劾，受封爵；某个新国家的建立，战争的失败，抑或史书的著成等等本书都有详细记录。

She has developed a disconcerting vanity,with every intention to keep up with the Joneses.

3她已经产生了一种强烈的虚荣心，什么事物都想和人攀比。

If refill is used without a vanity display case,make sure to reseal after each use.

若产品是在没有摆放盒的状态下使用的，则要确保每次使用后再密封。

The circulation, consumption and reproduction of the trilogy have not only testified to its historical significance and literariness, but also invested it with new meanings.

该三部曲的流通、消费与再生产不仅验证了其历史意义及文学性，而切还赋予它以新的意义。

If he thought that he could buy me off, he would be wrong.

如果他认为他可以收买我，那他就大错特错了。