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常见例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语: ～+ n.

She is one of those vain people who never take others' advice.
她属于那种自负得从不听别人劝告的人。
I don't like a vain woman.
我讨厌爱慕虚荣的女人。
He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child.
他试图接近那个快淹死的小孩,但没有成功。

用作表语: S+be+～

All my efforts were vain.
我的一切努力都白费了。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

He's very vain of his abilities.
他对于自己的能力很自负。

It is/was+～+to- v

It is vain to resist.
抵抗是没用的。

用作宾语补足语: S+V+O+～

Too much praise can make a man vain.
过度的赞扬会使人自负。

更多例句

He is still vain enough to dye his hair red.
他还是很虚荣，把头发染成了红褐色。
It became obvious that all her complaints were in vain.
很明显她所有的抱怨都是白费口舌。
I am not a vain creature.
我不是个爱慕虚荣的人。
She's just a vain, foolish woman.
她不过是个愚蠢自负的女人。
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
她紧闭双眼，却无法忍住眼泪。
He married his fourth wife, Susan, in the vain hope that she would improve his health.
他娶了第四个老婆苏珊，徒然希望她能使他健康状况好转。
Throughout the Twenties, Lardner tried in vain to write a hit song, so at last he turned to parody.
整个20年代，拉德纳尝试着想要写出一首走红歌曲，可是都失败了，于是最后转向戏仿他人的作品。
I am not a vain creature.
我不是个爱慕虚荣的人。
The drafting committee worked through the night in a vain attempt to finish on schedule.
起草委员会为按计划完成草案已通宵加班，但结果仍是徒劳。
She is perceived as vain, spoilt and promiscuous.
她被认为是个被人惯坏了的、既虚荣又淫乱的女人。
He is still vain enough to dye his hair red.
他还是很虚荣，把头发染成了红褐色。
It became obvious that all her complaints were in vain.
很明显她所有的抱怨都是白费口舌。
He stopped at the door, waiting in vain for her to acknowledge his presence.
他在门口停住，徒然地等待她和自己打招呼。
They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.
他们企图使这些陈旧的工业现代化,结果劳而无功.
It is vain to resist.
抵抗是没用的.
He made a vain attempt to reach the drowning child.
他试图接近那个快淹死的小孩,但没有成功.
He's very vain of his abilities.
他对于自己的能力很自负.
He could not bring himself to like the boastful, vain Arabella.
他无法让自己喜欢爱夸耀的、虚荣的阿拉贝拉.
I don't like a vain woman.
我讨厌爱慕虚荣的女人.
He was so vain and reckless that he would break a friendship, rather than not break a jest.
他是如此虚荣狂妄,宁可和人翻脸, 有笑话却不能不说.
Who's been taking my name in vain? I don't hold such an opinion.
谁在滥用我的名义? 我不赞成这个建议.
We searched in vain for the missing child.
我们到处寻找那孩子,但没有找到.
They endeavored to make her happy, but in vain.
他们想方设法地使她高兴, 但那是徒劳的.
All my efforts were vain.
我的一切努力都白费了.
Her modesty is all put on; at heart she is very vain.
她的谦逊全是假装的, 内心里她是很虚荣的.
He is vain of his speech.
他对自己的发言很得意.
Their blood was not shed in vain.
他们的血没有白流.
The principal made another vain appeal for better equipment in the school laboratory.
校长又一次请求增加学校实验设备,但又是一场空.
In making that plea he will breathe in vain.
他做那种恳求是白费口舌的.
All his efforts were in vain.
他的一切努力都归无效.
In the eye of the Buddhist, every worldly affair is vain.
在佛教徒的眼里, 人世上一切事情都是空的.
I read his article again and again, trying hard to understand what he was driving at but in vain.
我把他的文章读了一遍又一遍, 但对他的意图仍百思不解.
My efforts were not in vain.
我的气力没有白费.
She's just a vain, foolish woman.
她不过是个愚蠢自负的女人。
The secretary was a vain and pompous man.
秘书是一个虚荣而自负的人.
Nicholas is not alone in desiring Alisoun. A merry, vain parish clerk Absolon also fancies Alisoun.
不单单只尼古拉斯渴望著爱丽桑, 还有位自负的神职人员艾伯所隆也迷恋著爱丽桑.
I think she is rather a vain girl and thinking too much about her figure.
我认为她是一个自负的女孩,过于注重自己的身材.
It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else.
试图将谋杀的罪责转嫁给他人是徒劳的。
They endeavored to make her happy, but in vain.
他们想方设法地使她高兴, 但那是徒劳的.
Faith is not built on vain disquisitions.
信仰并不奠立于那种徒劳的穷根究底.
Men has free choice. Otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
人具有自由意志. 否则,劝告、赞扬、命令、禁规、奖赏和惩罚都将是徒劳的.
All our entreaties were in vain, and he was shot at dawn.
我们所有的恳求都是徒劳的, 他在天亮时被枪毙了.
All attempts have been in vain.
所有的尝试都是徒劳的.
My tears and my sorrows all in vain.
我的眼泪和我的血汗,都是徒劳的.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
先生们, 掩盖事态是徒劳的.
But it was in vain. Eisenhower saw through the game.
这是徒劳的, 艾森豪威尔看穿了这个把戏.
Down, vain lights, shine you no more!
坠下, 徒劳的光线, 不再将你照得光灿!
And not in vain will I seek.
而我的寻找不会是徒劳的.
They may cry in vain.
他们的呼吁可能是徒劳的.
It is vain to attempt to root out heresy by force.
试图用暴力消除异端邪说是徒劳的.
Without result; in vain; useless.
无结果的; 徒劳的; 无用的.

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