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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
虚荣和骄傲是两码事，尽管这两个词经常被用作同义词。一个人可以骄傲而不虚荣。骄傲更多地与我们对自己的看法有关;虚荣心，我们希望别人怎么看我们。
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。
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
虚荣心对自然是一种重要的帮助:对生命来说是完全和绝对必要的。这是大自然将你与地球联系在一起的方式之一。
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
人的舌头和笔，若为一点虚浮，是不能拦阻的。
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
意识到眼前快乐的虚假性，以及对缺乏快乐的虚荣心的无知，导致了无常。
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
使我们因羞愧和嫉妒而感到痛苦的是虚荣不能帮助我们忍受它们。