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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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
虚荣的最高形式是对名誉的爱。
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 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。
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
愚蠢说，虚荣做。
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
治疗虚荣心最可靠的方法是孤独。
Vanity is my favourite sin.
虚荣是我最大的罪恶。