vanity

• Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief .
  把虚荣加在一个智力薄弱的人的头上，是会发生各种危险的。
• If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable。
  要是我存心要在音乐上出风头，我真要对你感激不尽。
• He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave .
  他喜欢虚空烦恼胜过坟墓里的寂寞和静止。
• Our friend george was in the full career of the pleasures of vanity fair .
  我们的朋友乔治正在用足速力追求名利场上的快乐呢。
• It evidently pained his vanity to be beholden to the orphan for succor .
  显然，向一个孤儿的救济表示感谢，伤到了他的虚荣心。
• Most leaders' vanity causes them to exaggerate their own significance .
  绝大多数领导人出于虚荣心往往喜欢夸大他们自己的重要地位。
• Deerslayer hesitated a moment, and a gleam of pride and vanity came over him .
  杀鹿人犹豫了一下，一种自豪和虚荣心占据了他的心头。
• He paused, waving his hand to signify the vanity of the more that might be said .
  他停顿下来，挥舞着手，使他的话显得更加虚无飘渺。
• I am sorry if i hurt your vanity by saying so, but i assure you it is true .
  如果我的话伤了你的自尊心，我感到很遗憾，然而这却是实情。
• By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in vanity fair .
  好可怜啊，在“名利场”中，母亲的爱换得了什么好处呢？