A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
虚荣
Vanity
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
跌入谷底的第一个受害者是虚荣心。
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。
Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
虚荣心既是一种巨大的动力，也是一种巨大的欺骗。
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
如果没有虚荣心作伴，美德将走得很远。
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
骄傲不愿欠，虚荣不愿付。
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。
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
从来没有一个漂亮的女人不对着镜子做鬼脸。
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
照镜子并不是对生活的研究。
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
纨绔子弟就是那些傻瓜认为自己是有价值的人。
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
虚荣死很难;在某些顽固的情况下，它比人活得长。
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
人的脸红不是因为他们的罪行，而是因为他们的软弱和虚荣。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
Mine is better than ours.
我的比我们的好。
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
我什么都不满足，躁动不安，野心勃勃……我鄙视自己的虚荣心，虚荣心是我努力的一半动力。啊，但愿我是那些曾经着手犁地的迟钝而又聪明的傻瓜之一，什么也不怀疑。
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。
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
治疗虚荣心最可靠的方法是孤独。