vanities

MOST British prime ministers end up trying to cut a dash on the world stage, even if at the outset they forswear such vanities.

大多数英国首相最终总是想要在国际舞台上大出风头，尽管最初上台时他们都发誓说绝不如此。

Mankind is still at risk from far more dangerous weapons and vanities than those likely to be possessed by Islamic fanatics.

人类仍然面临比伊斯兰狂热分子所拥有的更危险的武器以及虚荣。

And he gave me a taste of the joys and vanities of ownership. Watching someone drop a couple coins into my machine.

这让我尝到了拥有一个小商业的快乐和虚荣。每每看到有人往我的机器里投入几个硬币，这种感觉便油然而生。

But in the next century we'll BE able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-f0rms.

但在下个世纪，我们将能从根本上改变我们的DNA，即在制造新的生命形式时对自己的理智和情感进行编码。

It is like a vast river in which man is caught, with all his worldly goods, his vanities , pains and knowledge.

它就像一条巨大的河流，也被困于其中，还有他的一切世俗财物，他的虚荣、痛苦与知识，也被困于其中。

all of these works of the devil thrown into the flames in the public square in the celebrated "burning of the vanities" .

在著名的“焚烧虚荣”行动中，所有这些魔鬼的作品被扔进公共广场的火中。

Everyone, even people who pretend to be above such vanities, likes to think they are special.

每个人都喜欢觉得自己是特别的，即便是那些假装不在乎这些虚名的人也不例外。

The Twin Towers were also in the drama Wall Street as well as in the opening shots of Brian de Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities.

双塔亦在剧中华尔街以及布赖恩帕尔马的虚荣的篝火开放拍摄。

One thing rather quenched the vanities : she had to wear her cousin's clothes .

有件事不免有点挫伤她的虚荣心：她不得不穿她表姐的衣服。

and look at his own-- how frivolous, how charged with mean vanities, how selfish , how empty, how ignoble!

再看看他自己的生活——何等轻浮，充斥着庸俗的虚荣，何等自私，何等空虚，何等卑琐啊！

Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely.

艾美差不多被大家宠坏了，她的虚荣和自私也成正比例增长。

we manufacture kitchens , vanities , shower cubical , bath , boats and other quality fibreglass products.

本公司生产的产品包括橱柜，冲浪按摩浴盆，淋浴房，台面盆，船艇和其他复合材料制品。

In the course of the trip, the old folks become aware of both the virtues and vanities of their offspring.

在他俩的这段旅程中，老俩口亲历他们子女生活的酸甜苦辣。

We are watching a bonfire of the old orthodoxies as well as of the vanities.

我们正看到旧的正统学说和虚荣心被投入熊熊烈火。

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain?

外邦人虚无的神中有能降雨的吗。

It is as wrong-headed as Savonarola's contempt for the works of art he called 'vanities'.

那和萨瓦罗纳拉（Savanarola）对他称作“浮华”的艺术作品的轻蔑一样大错特错。

He presents us with more a celebration of the vanities than a bonfire.

他呈现给我们的是对虚荣的颂扬而不是篝火。

the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians.

政治家的虚荣心与野心。

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

他们尽都是畜类，是愚昧的。偶像的训诲算什么呢。偶像不过是木头。

They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities .

以虚无之物，惹动我的怒气。