vain

美 [ve?n] 　英 [ve?n]

• adj.徒勞的；枉然的；無結(jié)果的；自負(fù)的
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)白費(fèi)；虛榮的；空虛的

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例句

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

他又問了她一次，徒然指望著能說服她來。

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.

緊的鼻革是徒勞的掩飾，它只能說明你的馬沒有準(zhǔn)備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過的人還要復(fù)活，為亡者祈禱，便是一種多馀而糊涂的事。

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

現(xiàn)在長(zhǎng)大了，為你；我堅(jiān)強(qiáng)了，為你；我改變著，為你。只是我知道這一切都是徒然！

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

試圖保持生活的中立和淡漠，是不明智的，徒勞的。

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

我們極力勸說那位老人離開那棟危房，老人就是不聽。

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

我們一直在等她回來看望我們，但我們白等了。【高考鏈接】

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

美國(guó)聯(lián)邦檢察長(zhǎng)此刻正在起訴她，要讓她把新澤西公司分解成系列子公司，而她卻還在坐童車，豈不徒勞？

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

一個(gè)加納家庭暫時(shí)收留了他。夸西等待姨母的消息，可杳無音信。

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

半個(gè)多世紀(jì)以來，朝鮮半島南、北兩國(guó)都宣稱致力于朝鮮民族統(tǒng)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?

難道為了缺少一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)證明他罪行的證據(jù)，就讓這個(gè)年輕，不肯開腔，愛虛榮的騙子逃脫么？

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.

柯林斯為人善良仁慈，雖然有點(diǎn)虛榮心和自大，但辦事認(rèn)真直率，能力很強(qiáng)。

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

我在她身上花了那麼多時(shí)間，但是完全白費(fèi)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.

以你目前這個(gè)模樣，卻想到處傳播你的儒學(xué)思想，肯定是處處碰壁，徒有滿腔熱情也是枉然的。

'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，要是她很自以為是，我就連正眼看她也不敢了！你知道，我是一個(gè)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.

帕迪跳起來了，他的面容發(fā)呆。從前他從未聽見菲這樣漫不經(jīng)心地褻瀆上帝的圣名。

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

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.

大舒馬赫幾乎將巴里切羅擠到PIT墻，他企圖阻止他的前隊(duì)友在上周的比賽中超過他獲得第十。

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，可以證明愛美的埃及人在日常生活中也一定使用這種產(chǎn)品。

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

我常常甚至是徒勞地希望把鏡子倒過來，尋求自己的榮耀。

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.

由于他出身高貴，又是個(gè)惹眼的美男子，朱莉亞雖然別有所戀，卻并非深情得沒覺察到他的殷勤勁兒。

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

當(dāng)榮譽(yù)一時(shí)尚未確定歸屬的時(shí)候，某些虛榮心比你更強(qiáng)的人就會(huì)躍躍欲試，把榮譽(yù)據(jù)為己有。

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

拉什沃恩夫人是“那類女人”：愚蠢，虛榮，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.

那些為數(shù)學(xué)而搞數(shù)學(xué)的人是白費(fèi)精神的盲目的研究者。

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

想起自己也生過孩子，他得意了。

He still reasoned with her, but in vain.

他仍在與她辯論，但是辯論也沒用。

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

我明白了：對(duì)你這一副鐵石心腸再講也是白費(fèi)。

It was in vain. Eisenhower saw through the game.

這是徒勞的，艾森豪威爾看穿了這個(gè)把戲。

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

她絞盡了腦汁想不出辦法能使她的父親認(rèn)出她來。

Faith is not built on vain disquisitions.

信仰并不奠立于那種徒勞的窮根究底。

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.

當(dāng)眾人使伯爵翻過身去的時(shí)候，他的一只手軟弱無力地向后垂下，他用力地想把自己的這只手拿過去，但是無能為力，白費(fèi)勁。

In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

我責(zé)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。

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

但這都是徒勞無益的，我有種極度可怕、極度可恥的失敗的感覺。

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

弗洛伊德蘭迪斯做了一些漏洞百出的辯解，說他服用的藥物是為了療傷，但所有這些都是徒勞的。語境。

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

他從不褻瀆上帝的名字，從不和人通奸，從不想去勾引鄰居的老婆。

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

“貝蒂”似乎只是一個(gè)噱頭，白白被利用了一場(chǎng)，贏得一些無謂的口水和批判。

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

日復(fù)一日，他徒勞地等待著她的電話。

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

對(duì)于一個(gè)有過象他那樣經(jīng)歷的人說來，到處所見給他的印象無非是這個(gè)世界充滿了庸俗與虛榮。

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(gè)難弄的班級(jí)但不見生效后，這個(gè)缺乏經(jīng)驗(yàn)的年輕教師不得不承認(rèn)，他已無法可施。

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

作夢(mèng)者所說的是假夢(mèng)，他們白白地安慰人。所以眾人如羊流離，因無牧人就受苦。

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

既然不符合貪污論處，應(yīng)該有一個(gè)說法啊。至少不要讓公款白白地被浪費(fèi)。

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(fèi)力氣，她只好把那封信，照原樣敞開著放在桌子上。

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

結(jié)了婚，無論他怎么虛榮和豪爽，他想到的首先是你和你們的孩子，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.

德國(guó)鐵路首席執(zhí)行官哈特穆特?梅多恩（HartmutMehdorn）徒勞地堅(jiān)持稱，該公司監(jiān)視員工是為了防范腐敗。

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

這讓我難過，不見了她看節(jié)目時(shí)的那種笑臉，我的心也像沒了寄托似的，腦子里空虛虛的。

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—“市場(chǎng)需要道德約束”—中，如果有讀者試圖尋找絲毫關(guān)于這種模式如何實(shí)現(xiàn)的細(xì)節(jié)闡述，那他注定是徒勞的。

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

他頂著旋風(fēng)提高了嗓門叫起來，為了能聽到自己說話，他的叫聲越來越大，但依然什么也聽不見。

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

他們想把女孩從她父母身邊帶走，卻失敗了。

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

杰克遜表示這些有點(diǎn)尖刻的言論并不會(huì)帶來什么負(fù)面的影響，他倒是希望能夠能有點(diǎn)風(fēng)波（這樣才有趣）。

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

我們已經(jīng)從每一個(gè)可能的角度提出了這個(gè)問題，但是都是徒勞。