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vanityn.
1 . emptiness,i . e. pleasures of the world. earthly joys空虛，（指）塵世的快樂。
△Rom. 2. 6 . 20: “so light is vani-ty.”(From the view of religion,only heavenly thingsare eternal,and love is mere “vanity”.)虛幻的快樂總是輕飄飄的。
2. empty pride,futility,trifling虛榮，無益，鬧著玩。
△Rom. 1 . 1 . 183 (178): “O heavy lightness. seriousvanity!”(Love is both unhappy and happy; it is both serious and empty.) 啊，沉重的輕浮，嚴(yán)肅的虛妄！
△ 1H.IV.5.3.33 (32): “There’s honour for you! Here’s no vanity!”i.e. There’s true honour for you,there’s no empty pride about this. 你可真有了榮譽！這可不是虛榮！
△ 2H.IV.4.5. 118 (119):“Harry the Fifth is crowned! Up,vanity!”哈利五世加冕了！ 起來吧，浮華！
3. frivolity. triviality,empty-headedness 輕浮，淺薄，沒頭腦。
△2H.IV.5.2.129:“The tide of blood in me /Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now:”我的熱情的浪潮在此以前曾經(jīng)無拘無束地在輕浮行為之中奔流。
△ H.V.24.130: “As matching to his youth and vanity,I didpresent him with the Paris balls.”我送給他那些巴黎網(wǎng)球，因為它們正適合他那少年輕浮的脾氣。
4. empty and vain conceit. illusion 空虛想法，幻想。
△ H.VIII.2.3.68:“nor my wishes / More worth thanempty vanities；”我的祝愿也不比空想有更多的價值。
5. worldly considerations. empty and vain pursuit.frivolous pursuits 世俗之念，虛榮事務(wù)，輕浮之事。
△ 1H.IV.1.2.91(81):“But,Hal,I prithee trouble me no morewith vanity；”(Falstaff speaks mockingly in the idiomof the Elizabethan idioms. “Vanity” was a favouriteword of the Puritans.) 可是，哈爾，我請你，別再拿這些俗事來打攪我吧。
△ H.VIII.1.1. 53: “What had he / To doin these fierce vanities?”這些狂熱的世俗事務(wù)跟他有什么關(guān)系？
△ H.VIII.1.1.85: “What did this vanity / Butminister communication of / A most poor issue?”這種虛榮活動除了導(dǎo)致一場收效甚微的會談之外，又有什么好處？
6. folly 蠢事。
△H.V.2.4.36: “his vanities fore-spent”，他過去的那些蠢事。
△ H.VIII.1.3.38: “thesetrim vanities”，i. e. spruce follies. worthless things. 這些賣弄瀟灑的蠢事。
7. empty boast 自吹自擂的空話。
△ 1H.IV.5.4.74: “Ican no longer brook thy vanities. ”我不能再容忍你這些大話。
8. splendour,fine show,finery 豪華，夸飾，華麗。
△Oth.4.2.163: “To do the act that might the additionearn,/ Not the world’s mass of vanity could make me.”全世界的榮華富貴也不能使我干出丑事來博得這個稱號。
9. i.e.Vanity,a character in old morality plays,re-presenting folly and worldliness 虛妄（英國中世紀(jì)道德劇中的一個人物）。
△ 1H.IV. 2.4.506 (454): “that vanity inyears?”i.e.that aged Vanity. 那個上了年紀(jì)的虛妄。
10.?vain pursuits of life. worldliness 虛榮事務(wù)，世俗之道。
?frivolity,lightness 輕薄，輕浮。
△ 1H.IV.5.4.105: “O,I should have a heavy miss of thee / If Iwere much in love with vanity!”啊，如果我真是非常耽于世俗游樂(雙關(guān)：喜愛輕浮)，我該要對你感到沉重的想念！
Vanity the puppet:i.e. Lady Vanity,a character inmorality puppet-shows 木偶“虛榮”，（指西歐中世紀(jì)）木偶道德劇中的一個人物“虛榮夫人”。
△ Lr.2.2.39 (35): “Youcome with letters against the King. and take Vanitythe puppet’s part against the royalty of her father.”(Vanity the puppet.i.e. Goneril)你帶著不利于國王的信件來，和那木偶“虛榮”同黨，跟她的父親王上作對。 vanity[?v?niti]n.空虛，虛榮心，浮華
‖ vanity bag 小手袋
vanity case 小手提包
vanity Fair（美國） 《名利場》雜志，名利場 |