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adj.
(形容詞)
- 自負的; 愛慕虛榮的 thinking too highly of one's appearance, abilities, etc.; conceited
- 徒勞的,無用的,無效的 useless or futile
adj.
形容詞
- 自負的，自視過高的，自高自大的
- 徒然的，徒勞的，無結果的，枉然的
- 無益的
- 愛虛榮的
- 炫耀的
- <書>空虛的
- 無意義的，無價值的
- 無效的，沒效果的
- 愚蠢的
n.
名詞
- 未用空間
Adjective:
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characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance;
"a conceited fool"
"an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"
"an egotistical disregard of others"
"so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"
"growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"
"vain about her clothes"
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unproductive of success;
"a fruitless search"
"futile years after her artistic peak"
"a sleeveless errand"
"a vain attempt"
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用作形容詞 (adj.)
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She is vain and foolish, and yet people like her.
她自擔而愚昧無知，所以用戶歡迎她。
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She is vain of her voice.
她自其實她的音樂聲了不易。
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They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain.
其時應使她期待，卻徒勞無功。
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All his father's exhortations were in vain.
他爸爸的一些勸慰都失效。
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We tried in vain to make him change his mind.
.我想使他轉換注意，的結果是浪費心機。
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The world had made him extravagant and vain.
俗世使他變的放蕩奔放，虛榮恃才傲物。
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She is so vain that she can't pass a mirror without looking into it.
她好愛虛榮,每經過了另一面小鏡子都會照看。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
用在定語
～+ n.
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She is one of those vain people who never take others' advice.
她應屬于哪幾種自滿得不肯聽人規勸的人。
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I don't like a vain woman.
我看不順眼深愛虛榮的女性朋友。
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He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child.
他會議室說出哪一個快淹死的寶寶,但找不到取得成功。
重復使用表語
S+be+～
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All my efforts were vain.
我的所有的全力都徒勞無功了。
S+be+～+ prep .-phrase
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He's very vain of his abilities.
他而對于我們的工作能力很自付。
It is/was+～+to- v
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It is vain to resist.
驅散是沒啥用的。
用于賓語補齊語
S+V+O+～
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Too much praise can make a man vain.
過頭的贊許會讓人自滿。
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All literature, art, and science are vain..if they do not enable you to be glad.
出至： J. Ruskin
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It is..vain to try to be other than we are.
產自： D. M. Frame
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The vain attempts of feminist critics to prove there is a..'women's language'.
來自：New York Review of Books
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用作形容詞 (adj.)
- in vain
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無效果的,無用的fruitless or uselessIt was in vain that we tried to find his mother.我們百般設法找他的母親,但毫無結果。
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- ☆ 直接源自古法語的vain，意為沒有價值的；最初源自拉丁語的vanus，意為空著的。
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超過方面獨有制作，受經典著作權法防護，侵犯著作權必究
海詞漢語詞典，二十七年項目
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