vain是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

adj. 徒劳的；枉然的；无结果的；自负的

网络 白费；虚荣的；空虚的

变形：

比较级：vainer  最高级：vainest  

完整释义：

adj.

1.徒劳的;虚荣的;空虚的
2.无谓的,毫无用处;落空,枉费心机,徒劳无益的
3.徒然的,无益的,没效果的;愚蠢的;不足道的
4.自夸的,自负的;爱虚荣的
5.虚荣,爱虚荣,企慕名誉;虚荣自负
6.空的,空虚的;虚有其表的,表面好看的,虚饰的
7.空泛;空虚的
8.自负,不自量,自高自大的;得意,颇为得意
9.自以为的
10.轻浮

例句：

1. In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
   我责打你们的儿女是徒然的，他们不受惩治。你们自己的刀吞灭你们的先知，好像残害的狮子。

2. Trying to deconstruct why I do it, I'm not afraid to say that I'm at least a little vain, I wouldn't appear on television if I wasn't.
   我尝试解构我为什么会这样做，但恐怕我只能说，我至少有那么点儿爱慕虚荣了。

3. Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the media mogul was engaged in a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle" .
   上周，Twitter创办人之一BizStone称，这位传媒巨头是在反其道而行之，这种行为无异于把放出来的精灵重新放回神灯中一样毫无意义。

4. In the final chapter, "Markets Need Morals" , the reader looks in vain for a bit of detail about how such a code might be imposed.
   在最后一章—“市场需要道德约束”—中，如果有读者试图寻找丝毫关于这种模式如何实现的细节阐述，那他注定是徒劳的。

5. After trying in vain to control the unruly class, the young and inexperienced instructor had to admit that he was at eth end of his tether.
   试图控制这个难弄的班级但不见生效后，这个缺乏经验的年轻教师不得不承认，他已无法可施。

6. For want of a bit of incriminating proof was such a young, silent, vain crook as this to be allowed to escape?
   难道为了缺少一点点证明他罪行的证据，就让这个年轻，不肯开腔，爱虚荣的骗子逃脱么？

7. But surely if a man's world be the sum of his sensible perceptions, he has no reason to be vain of such a world.
   但假如他的世界只是一堆感觉印象的聚集体，那么他就没有理由以这种世界自豪。

8. After a hurried and vain endeavour to thrust it in a drawer, she was forced to place it, open as it was, upon a table.
   她打算把信塞到抽屉里，可是匆匆忙忙，白费力气，她只好把那封信，照原样敞开着放在桌子上。