vain是什麼意思_音標_用法_例句

簡單釋義：

adj. 徒勞的；枉然的；無結果的；自負的

網絡 白費；虛榮的；空虛的

變形：

比較級：vainer  最高級：vainest  

完整釋義：

adj.

1.徒勞的;虛榮的;空虛的
2.無謂的,毫無用處;落空,枉費心機,徒勞無益的
3.徒然的,無益的,沒效果的;愚蠢的;不足道的
4.自誇的,自負的;愛虛榮的
5.虛榮,愛虛榮,企慕名譽;虛榮自負
6.空的,空虛的;虛有其表的,表面好看的,虛飾的
7.空泛;空虛的
8.自負,不自量,自高自大的;得意,頗為得意
9.自以為的
10.輕浮

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.
   我責打你們的兒女是徒然的，他們不受懲治。你們自己的刀吞滅你們的先知，好像殘害的獅子。

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.
   我嘗試解構我為什麼會這樣做，但恐怕我只能說，我至少有那麼點兒愛慕虛榮了。

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創辦人之一BizStone稱，這位傳媒巨頭是在反其道而行之，這種行為無異於把放出來的精靈重新放回神燈中一樣毫無意義。

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.
   在最後一章—“市場需要道德約束”—中，如果有讀者試圖尋找絲毫關於這種模式如何實現的細節闡述，那他註定是徒勞的。

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.
   試圖控制這個難弄的班級但不見生效後，這個缺乏經驗的年輕教師不得不承認，他已無法可施。

6. For want of a bit of incriminating proof was such a young, silent, vain crook as this to be allowed to escape?
   難道為了缺少一點點證明他罪行的證據，就讓這個年輕，不肯開腔，愛虛榮的騙子逃脫么？

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覺印象的聚集體，那麼他就沒有理由以這種世界自豪。

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.
   她打算把信塞到抽屜里，可是匆匆忙忙，白費力氣，她只好把那封信，照原樣敞開着放在桌子上。