vain

常見例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

用作定語: ～+ n.

• She is one of those vain people who never take others' advice.
  她屬于那種自負(fù)得從不聽別人勸告的人。
• I don't like a vain woman.
  我討厭愛慕虛榮的女人。
• He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child.
  他試圖接近那個(gè)快淹死的小孩,但沒有成功。

用作表語: S+be+～

• All my efforts were vain.
  我的一切努力都白費(fèi)了。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• He's very vain of his abilities.
  他對于自己的能力很自負(fù)。

It is/was+～+to- v

• It is vain to resist.
  抵抗是沒用的。

用作賓語補(bǔ)足語: S+V+O+～

• Too much praise can make a man vain.
  過度的贊揚(yáng)會(huì)使人自負(fù)。

更多例句

• He is still vain enough to dye his hair red.
  他還是很虛榮，把頭發(fā)染成了紅褐色。
• It became obvious that all her complaints were in vain.
  很明顯她所有的抱怨都是白費(fèi)口舌。
• I am not a vain creature.
  我不是個(gè)愛慕虛榮的人。
• She's just a vain, foolish woman.
  她不過是個(gè)愚蠢自負(fù)的女人。
• She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
  她緊閉雙眼，卻無法忍住眼淚。
• He married his fourth wife, Susan, in the vain hope that she would improve his health.
  他娶了第四個(gè)老婆蘇珊，徒然希望她能使他健康狀況好轉(zhuǎn)。
• Throughout the Twenties, Lardner tried in vain to write a hit song, so at last he turned to parody.
  整個(gè)20年代，拉德納嘗試著想要寫出一首走紅歌曲，可是都失敗了，于是最后轉(zhuǎn)向戲仿他人的作品。
• I am not a vain creature.
  我不是個(gè)愛慕虛榮的人。
• The drafting committee worked through the night in a vain attempt to finish on schedule.
  起草委員會(huì)為按計(jì)劃完成草案已通宵加班，但結(jié)果仍是徒勞。
• She is perceived as vain, spoilt and promiscuous.
  她被認(rèn)為是個(gè)被人慣壞了的、既虛榮又淫亂的女人。
• He is still vain enough to dye his hair red.
  他還是很虛榮，把頭發(fā)染成了紅褐色。
• It became obvious that all her complaints were in vain.
  很明顯她所有的抱怨都是白費(fèi)口舌。
• He stopped at the door, waiting in vain for her to acknowledge his presence.
  他在門口停住，徒然地等待她和自己打招呼。
• They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.
  他們企圖使這些陳舊的工業(yè)現(xiàn)代化,結(jié)果勞而無功.
• It is vain to resist.
  抵抗是沒用的.
• He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child.
  他試圖接近那個(gè)快淹死的小孩,但沒有成功.
• He's very vain of his abilities.
  他對于自己的能力很自負(fù).
• He could not bring himself to like the boastful, vain Arabella.
  他無法讓自己喜歡愛夸耀的 、 虛榮的阿拉貝拉.
• I don't like a vain woman.
  我討厭愛慕虛榮的女人.
• He was so vain and reckless that he would break a friendship, rather than not break a jest.
  他是如此虛榮狂妄,寧可和人翻臉, 有笑話卻不能不說.
• Who's been taking my name in vain? I don't hold such an opinion.
  誰在濫用我的名義? 我不贊成這個(gè)建議.
• We searched in vain for the missing child.
  我們到處尋找那孩子,但沒有找到.
• They endeavored to make her happy, but in vain.
  他們想方設(shè)法地使她高興, 但那是徒勞的.
• All my efforts were vain.
  我的一切努力都白費(fèi)了.
• Her modesty is all put on; at heart she is very vain.
  她的謙遜全是假裝的, 內(nèi)心里她是很虛榮的.
• He is vain of his speech.
  他對自己的發(fā)言很得意.
• Their blood was not shed in vain.
  他們的血沒有白流.
• The principal made another vain appeal for better equipment in the school laboratory.
  校長又一次請求增加學(xué)校實(shí)驗(yàn)設(shè)備,但又是一場空.
• In making that plea he will breathe in vain.
  他做那種懇求是白費(fèi)口舌的.
• All his efforts were in vain.
  他的一切努力都?xì)w無效.
• In the eye of the Buddhist, every worldly affair is vain.
  在佛教徒的眼里, 人世上一切事情都是空的.
• I read his article again and again, trying hard to understand what he was driving at but in vain.
  我把他的文章讀了一遍又一遍, 但對他的意圖仍百思不解.
• My efforts were not in vain.
  我的氣力沒有白費(fèi).
• She's just a vain, foolish woman.
  她不過是個(gè)愚蠢自負(fù)的女人。
• The secretary was a vain and pompous man.
  秘書是一個(gè)虛榮而自負(fù)的人.
• Nicholas is not alone in desiring Alisoun. A merry, vain parish clerk Absolon also fancies Alisoun.
  不單單只尼古拉斯渴望著愛麗桑, 還有位自負(fù)的神職人員艾伯所隆也迷戀著愛麗桑.
• I think she is rather a vain girl and thinking too much about her figure.
  我認(rèn)為她是一個(gè)自負(fù)的女孩,過于注重自己的身材.
• It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else.
  試圖將謀殺的罪責(zé)轉(zhuǎn)嫁給他人是徒勞的。
• They endeavored to make her happy, but in vain.
  他們想方設(shè)法地使她高興, 但那是徒勞的.
• Faith is not built on vain disquisitions.
  信仰并不奠立于那種徒勞的窮根究底.
• Men has free choice. Otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
  人具有自由意志. 否則,勸告 、 贊揚(yáng) 、 命令 、 禁規(guī) 、 獎(jiǎng)賞和懲罰都將是徒勞的.
• All our entreaties were in vain, and he was shot at dawn.
  我們所有的懇求都是徒勞的, 他在天亮?xí)r被槍斃了.
• All attempts have been in vain.
  所有的嘗試都是徒勞的.
• My tears and my sorrows all in vain.
  我的眼淚和我的血汗,都是徒勞的.
• It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
  先生們, 掩蓋事態(tài)是徒勞的.
• But it was in vain. Eisenhower saw through the game.
  這是徒勞的, 艾森豪威爾看穿了這個(gè)把戲.
• Down, vain lights, shine you no more!
  墜下, 徒勞的光線, 不再將你照得光燦!
• And not in vain will I seek.
  而我的尋找不會(huì)是徒勞的.
• They may cry in vain.
  他們的呼吁可能是徒勞的.
• It is vain to attempt to root out heresy by force.
  試圖用暴力消除異端邪說是徒勞的.
• Without result; in vain; useless.
  無結(jié)果的; 徒勞的; 無用的.
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