vanity

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈvæn.ə.ti]
• 美式音标 [ˈvæn.ə.t̬i]
• 国际音标 ['vænəti]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.自负；虚荣心；无价值的东西；浮华

词根记忆

• van(空) + ity→空，虚→虚荣心
• van(空) + ity→空虚→虚荣

同根派生

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• The woman is always feeling after vanity.
  这女人一贯追求虚荣。

词组短语

用作名词 (n.)

～+介词

• the vanity of a life 生活的空虚无聊

短语

• vanity metrics 虚荣指标;名度指标
• Vanity Top 台面板;浴柜;卫生间台面
• Vanity lost 虚荣心丢失;伍蹄腩;名利场丢失;失去的虚荣
• Perfect Vanity 大嶋启之
• vanity washbasin 台式洗面器

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (SELFISH) the fact that you are too interested in your appearance or achievements
• (FURNITURE) a piece of bedroom furniture like a table with a mirror and drawers

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to someone's vanity, you are critical of them because they take great pride in their appearance or abilities.

专业释义

文学

• 浮华

  In his works, he unmasks the hypocrisy and emptiness of America in the 1920s under the superficial uproar and vanity.
  他在作品中大量融人了自己的生活经历，向人们展示了二十年代美国社会的浮华与喧嚣，以及深藏其后的衰败和空虚。

• 无我

  As alleviating the sedative with tense soul, the values of Buddhism impeled him to produce this kind of empty state: “Despair,like hope,is but vanity”.
  作为缓解心灵紧张的镇静剂,佛学无常无我、淡化执着的价值观促使他走向“绝望之为虚妄,正与希望相同”的空无状态。

  艺术学

• 虚无

  It is just one’s perceivable end that becomes the source of the trepidation of the human beings. As a result, people become extremely scared towards the elapse of hours, the sense of vanity, and the loss of self—value.
  人类对死亡的恐惧衍生成为了对时间流逝的焦虑、对此在“虚无”的恐惧、对丧失自我价值的恐惧。

  心理学

• 虚荣心