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vanities
英：【ˈvænɪtiz】美：【ˈvænətiz】
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美：
常见释义：
n.
虚荣心；浮华（vanity的复数）
原型:vanity
1、bonfires of the
vanities
book ─── 虚荣的篝火
2、whitewashed
vanities
─── 粉饰的虚饰
1、whitewashed vanities ─── 粉饰的虚饰
2、bonfires of the vanities book ─── 虚荣的篝火
1、Mankind is still at risk from far more dangerous weapons and
vanities
than those likely to be possessed by Islamic fanatics. ─── 人类仍然面临比伊斯兰狂热分子所拥有的更危险的武器以及虚荣。
2、And he gave me a taste of the joys and
vanities
of ownership. ─── 这让我尝到了拥有一个小商业的快乐和虚荣。
3、MOST British prime ministers end up trying to cut a dash on the world stage, even if at the outset they forswear such
vanities
. ─── 大多数英国首相最终总是想要在国际舞台上大出风头，尽管最初上台时他们都发誓说绝不如此。
4、And he gave me a taste of the joys and
vanities
of ownership. Watching someone drop a couple coins into my machine. ─── 这让我尝到了拥有一个小商业的快乐和虚荣。每每看到有人往我的机器里投入几个硬币，这种感觉便油然而生。
5、of
vanities
, saith the preacher; all is vanity. ─── 传道者说，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。
6、all of these works of the devil thrown into the flames in the public square in the celebrated "burning of the
vanities
" . ─── 在著名的“焚烧虚荣”行动中，所有这些魔鬼的作品被扔进公共广场的火中。
7、But in the next century well BE able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and
vanities
while concocting new life-f0rms. ─── 但在下个世纪，我们将能从根本上改变我们的DNA，即在制造新的生命形式时对自己的理智和情感进行编码。
8、Politics is too often concerned only with the personal
vanities
of politicians. ─── 政治常常仅与政界人士的个人虚荣有关。
9、It is like a vast river in which man is caught, with all his worldly goods, his
vanities
, pains and knowledge. ─── 它就像一条巨大的河流，也被困于其中，还有他的一切世俗财物，他的虚荣、痛苦与知识，也被困于其中。
In spite of her small
vanities
, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature.
Think of the so-called Bonfire of the Vanities in 1497, when Girolamo Savonarola and his band of religious followers roundly collected and set fire to mounds of "pagan" literature.
He whose sight is illumined with the light of understanding will assuredly detach himself from the world and the
vanities
thereof...Let not the world and its vileness grieve you.
Here and elsewhere, "Let the Great World Spin" can feel like a precursor to another novel of colliding cultures: "The Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfes classic portrait of New York in the 1980s.
Politics is too often concerned only with the personal
vanities
of politicians.
They renounce the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures,
vanities
, pride, interests.