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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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
在虚荣心和自满情绪爆发之后，一定要先吸一口气。
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
我们所说的慷慨，在很大程度上只是给予的虚荣心;我们这样做是因为我们更喜欢虚荣心而不是我们给予的东西。
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。
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
一个人的虚荣心告诉他什么是荣誉，一个人的良心告诉他什么是正义。
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
所谓慷慨，通常只是给予的虚荣;我们享受虚荣心甚于得到的东西。
I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.
我认为当你演喜剧时，你要遵循一套不同的规则。没有人真的想让你保持良好的状态。保持良好的体型意味着一定程度的虚荣心，而这种虚荣心并不一定是有趣的。