Vanity

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• Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• It will be good for my vanity, I was getting too proud of my wig. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in Vanity Fair, which among you does not know and suffer under such benevolent despots? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Nevertheless, Mrs Plornish, with a pardonable vanity in that accomplishment of hers which made her all but Italian, stepped in as interpreter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• These are the kinds of epitaphs which men pass over one another in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• To read were futile--to write, vanity indeed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
• Pity the fallen gentleman: you to whom money and fair repute are the chiefest good; and so, surely, are they in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• The passion of vanity is so prompt, that it rouzes at the least call; while humility requires a stronger impulse to make it exert itself. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• It's all vanity,' said Mr. Stiggins. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• The stories of violence and vanity in his closing years cluster thick upon his memory. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I'm glad you're going to keep one or two vanities, just by way of specimens of the old Adam. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• And then you reckon to have so much knowledge; and i' my thoughts it's only superficial sort o' vanities you're acquainted with. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• I had done with my poor man's touchy pride--I had done with all my little artist vanities. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• Hitherto man has been living in a slum, amidst quarrels, revenges, vanities, shames and taints, hot desires, and urgent appetites. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• I love not these vanities, which were unknown to my fathers when England was free. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• His dearest vanities, ambitious hopes, had all been here. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• One thing, however, rather quenched the vanities. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• These are vanities. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• A score of years hence that too, that milliner's wonder, will have passed into the domain of the absurd, along with all previous vanities. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Oh, my dear young friend,' replied Mr. Stiggins, 'all taps is vanities! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.

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