vain

vain

美 [veɪn] 　英 [veɪn]

• adj.徒劳的；枉然的；无结果的；自负的
• 网络白费；虚荣的；空虚的

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He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come(= it was impossible).

他又问了她一次，徒然指望着能说服她来。

A tight noseband is a vain attempt to disguise the fact that your horse is not ready for the things you are asking him to do.

紧的鼻革是徒劳的掩饰，它只能说明你的马没有准备好去做你要求他做的事情。

For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.

如果他不希望那些死过的人还要复活，为亡者祈祷，便是一种多馀而糊涂的事。

Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!

现在长大了，为你；我坚强了，为你；我改变着，为你。只是我知道这一切都是徒然！

An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference, is unreasonable and vain.

试图保持生活的中立和淡漠，是不明智的，徒劳的。

All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.

我们极力劝说那位老人离开那栋危房，老人就是不听。

We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.

我们一直在等她回来看望我们，但我们白等了。【高考链接】

The United States attorney-general is suing her as she sits, in a vain attempt to make her dissolve herself into constituent companies.

美国联邦检察长此刻正在起诉她，要让她把新泽西公司分解成系列子公司，而她却还在坐童车，岂不徒劳？

A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.

一个加纳家庭暂时收留了他。夸西等待姨母的消息，可杳无音信。

The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.

半个多世纪以来，朝鲜半岛南、北两国都宣称致力于朝鲜民族统一，但至今未果。

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？

He was a man of a good and kindly nature, a little vain and self-important, but earnest and upright, and possessed of very fair abilities.

柯林斯为人善良仁慈，虽然有点虚荣心和自大，但办事认真直率，能力很强。

I spent so much time on her, but it was all in vain.

我在她身上花了那麽多时间，但是完全白费了。

Nowadays, you go around like this but it is certain to be refused everywhere. It is in vain for you to hold a great ambition.

以你目前这个模样，却想到处传播你的儒学思想，肯定是处处碰壁，徒有满腔热情也是枉然的。

'Oh, if she's vain, Billy Smallbury, I'll never be able to look at her! I'm such a shy man, as you know! 'said the other.

唉，比利·斯摩伯里，要是她很自以为是，我就连正眼看她也不敢了！你知道，我是一个害羞的人！

Paddy jumped to his feet, his face stupefied; he had never heard Fee take the name of the Lord in vain before.

帕迪跳起来了，他的面容发呆。从前他从未听见菲这样漫不经心地亵渎上帝的圣名。

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。

Schumacher almost edged Barrichello into the pit wall as he tried in vain to stop his former team mate passing him for P10 late in the race.

大舒马赫几乎将巴里切罗挤到PIT墙，他企图阻止他的前队友在上周的比赛中超过他获得第十。

But others, which were preserved naturally in dry sand, prove the product must also have been used in everyday life by the vain Egyptians.

但是另一些在干燥的沙子中自然保存的木乃伊，可以证明爱美的埃及人在日常生活中也一定使用这种产品。

Often I even, in vain, desire to turn the mirror upside down and seek my own glory.

我常常甚至是徒劳地希望把镜子倒过来，寻求自己的荣耀。

As he was of high birth and of a showy person, the vain Julia was not so much in love as to be insensible to his attentions.

由于他出身高贵，又是个惹眼的美男子，朱莉亚虽然别有所恋，却并非深情得没觉察到他的殷勤劲儿。

If it remains a while uncertain to whom the merit belongs, someone more vain than yourself may be encouraged to claim it.

当荣誉一时尚未确定归属的时候，某些虚荣心比你更强的人就会跃跃欲试，把荣誉据为己有。

Mrs. Rushworth was that kind of woman: foolish, vain, and clandestine by nature.

拉什沃恩夫人是“那类女人”：愚蠢，虚荣，天生鬼鬼祟祟。

Those who cultivate mathematics for its own sake are idle searchers given to a vain play of the spirit.

那些为数学而搞数学的人是白费精神的盲目的研究者。

The fact that he had begotten a child made him vain.

想起自己也生过孩子，他得意了。

He still reasoned with her, but in vain.

他仍在与她辩论，但是辩论也没用。

I see that I am speaking in vain to a hardened heart.

我明白了：对你这一副铁石心肠再讲也是白费。

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。

She yearned in vain to make herself known to her father.

她绞尽了脑汁想不出办法能使她的父亲认出她来。

Faith is not built on vain disquisitions.

信仰并不奠立于那种徒劳的穷根究底。

While the count was being turned over, one of his arms dragged helplessly behind, and he made a vain effort to pull it after him.

当众人使伯爵翻过身去的时候，他的一只手软弱无力地向后垂下，他用力地想把自己的这只手拿过去，但是无能为力，白费劲。

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。

But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.

但这都是徒劳无益的，我有种极度可怕、极度可耻的失败的感觉。

Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.

弗洛伊德兰迪斯做了一些漏洞百出的辩解，说他服用的药物是为了疗伤，但所有这些都是徒劳的。语境。

He never once took the name of the lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor's ass.

他从不亵渎上帝的名字，从不和人通奸，从不想去勾引邻居的老婆。

"Betty" seems to be just a gimmick, to be used in a vain , to win some unnecessary criticism and saliva.

“贝蒂”似乎只是一个噱头，白白被利用了一场，赢得一些无谓的口水和批判。

Day after day he waited in vain for her to telephone him.

日复一日，他徒劳地等待着她的电话。

What was present to him everywhere was that for a man who had known what he had known the world was vulgar and vain.

对于一个有过象他那样经历的人说来，到处所见给他的印象无非是这个世界充满了庸俗与虚荣。

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。

they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

作梦者所说的是假梦，他们白白地安慰人。所以众人如羊流离，因无牧人就受苦。

Since not accord with corruption to punish, there should be a statement. Don't let the public money wasted in vain at least.

既然不符合贪污论处，应该有一个说法啊。至少不要让公款白白地被浪费。

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。

Married, no matter how vain and he was forthright, he thought first of you and your children, rather than his face.

结了婚，无论他怎么虚荣和豪爽，他想到的首先是你和你们的孩子，而不是自己的面子。

Hartmut Mehdorn, Deutsche Bahn's chief executive, insisted in vain that the company's monitoring of staff was to fight corruption.

德国铁路首席执行官哈特穆特•梅多恩（HartmutMehdorn）徒劳地坚持称，该公司监视员工是为了防范腐败。

It makes me sad, missing her when watching shows that smiling face, my heart did not like the sustenance like, mind empty and vain.

这让我难过，不见了她看节目时的那种笑脸，我的心也像没了寄托似的，脑子里空虚虚的。

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。

He lifted his voice against the whirlwind, shouting louder and louder in a vain desire to hear himself speak.

他顶着旋风提高了嗓门叫起来，为了能听到自己说话，他的叫声越来越大，但依然什么也听不见。

In vain did they try to take the girl away from her mother.

他们想把女孩从她父母身边带走，却失败了。

Jackson said he had not received any negative feedback about his pithy comments, which he hoped were being taken in the proper vain.

杰克逊表示这些有点尖刻的言论并不会带来什么负面的影响，他倒是希望能够能有点风波（这样才有趣）。

We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.

我们已经从每一个可能的角度提出了这个问题，但是都是徒劳。