A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
是徒劳
Vain
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
生与死很重要。不要白白让他们受苦。
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
名利常使作家虚荣，但很少使他骄傲。
It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.
钓鱼不带钩，读书不读书，都是徒劳的。
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
做一个人自己的傻瓜已经够糟了，但是虚荣的人却是每个人的。
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
我们在这里的快乐都是虚空的荣耀，这虚假的世界不过是暂时的。
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
我经常拿自己开玩笑，说我很自私，但我不虚荣。
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
在外表上是那么辉煌，那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
如果我们内心没有安宁，那么从外部寻求安宁是徒劳的。
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
诚实的人讲真话，虽然这可能会冒犯别人;一个虚荣的人，为了它可以。
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
作为一个人，我是完全虚荣的，作为一个演员，我对自己的能力只是徒劳。我行为上的虚荣心胜过人性上的虚荣心。
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
如果上帝不打算让女人使用她们的理智，他就不会给她们任何理智，因为他做的一切都是徒劳的。
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
如果我们希望得到我们不可能拥有的东西，我们的行动和思考都是徒劳的，我们使生活成为一个比实际更伟大的梦想和阴影。