A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
虚荣
Vanity
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。
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。
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。
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
教育的虚荣心常使人忘记自己是个笨蛋。
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
一个漂亮的妻子,对于一个爱挑剔虚荣的乡巴佬来说,是靠得住的。
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。
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
我们不能容忍别人的虚荣心,因为它冒犯了我们自己。
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
对于人类希望的虚荣心,没有任何地方比公共图书馆更能令人信服了。
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。
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
虚荣在冷漠下感到不安,正如温柔在无法回报的爱情下感到不安一样。
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
正直人的心,是无邪的,没有不义的行为,也没有虚谎的意念。
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
公开秘密的主要动机之一,通常是出于虚荣心,希望别人相信自己能保守秘密。
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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。
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
虚荣是理智的流沙。
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
如果我有一个虚荣的愿望,那就是导演。这是我还没有做过的唯一一件我想做的事。
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。
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
虚荣心和猛犸象一样古老。
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。