A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
虚荣
Vanity
Mine is better than ours.
我的比我们的好。
Vanity is my favourite sin.
虚荣是我最大的罪恶。
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
愚蠢说,虚荣做。
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
虚荣心和猛犸象一样古老。
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
虚荣是理智的流沙。
Please the eye and plague the heart.
眼见为喜,心烦为忧。
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
虚荣心是生活中最健康的东西。
We are often shot with our own feathers.
我们经常被自己的羽毛击中。
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
治疗虚荣心最可靠的方法是孤独。
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
虚荣的最高形式是对名誉的爱。
The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
年龄的奢侈就是放弃虚荣心。
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
当虚荣不能使我们说话时,我们很少说话。
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
奉承是一种坏钱,我们的虚荣心给了我们钱。
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
没有什么比让自己进入角色,看到一个不同的人更好的了。你的虚荣心可真受不了。
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
那些告诉我们爱会死的人是有罪的:在生活中,所有其他的激情都会飞走,其他的都只是虚荣。
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
娇生惯养的虚荣心也许比饥渴的自尊心要好。
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
我认为男演员会被自己的虚荣心所迷惑。
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
除了和我们意见相同的人以外,我们很少找到有理智的人。