A humble man falls in love with himself; a vain man falls in love with his reflection.
一个谦虚的人爱上的是他自己；而一个虚荣的人爱上的却是自己的倒影。
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
她紧闭双眼，却无法忍住眼泪。
At the moment, this seems a vain hope.
此时此刻，他的想法看来是徒劳的。
We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.
我们不应该在一个空虚的现实上撞破了船？
We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.
我们不要在一个空虚的现实上撞破了船。
Hans wielded a bedcover, but it was a vain effort.
汉斯挥舞着床罩，但这于事无补。
The caged bird flapped its wings in a vain attempt to fly away.
笼子哩的鸟拍打着翅膀想飞走，但却徒劳无功。
This is where the WIRED iPad app falls apart as a vain slide show.
就是在这个方面《连线》iPad版成了个虚有其表的幻灯片秀。
Don't try to fix him up with a vain girl，because he hatcs that kind of person.
别给他介绍虚荣的女孩，因为他讨厌那样的人。
A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.
靠马得救是枉然的。马也不能因力大救人。
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
靠马得救是枉然的。马也不能因力大救人。
Since April the pace of appreciation has been much reduced, in a vain effort to discourage speculators.
自从四月份以来，升值速度已经大大降低，对于阻止投机者来说，这是一个徒劳无功的努力。
A senior United Nations envoy thinks him “quite a vain guy”, who “dresses well, sits straight and looks good.”
一位美国高级使节认为他是一个“非常爱慕虚荣的人”，“穿着华丽，坐姿笔直，自我感觉良好”。
Those without umbrellas had covered their heads with plastic bags, towels and books in a vain attempt to stay dry.
有些人没有雨伞，于是用塑料袋、毛巾或书本遮头，试图防雨，结果还是淋湿了。
It was then repeatedly whittled down, finally to just $34 billion, in a vain attempt to win over a few Republicans.
因此，它的启动资金由开始本就不多的790亿美元，反复削减至最终的340亿美元。 可即便如此，也还是没能赢得几个共和党人的支持，白白折腾了一场。
With the starship damaged and unable to take off, Jeremitt and Caterine set out in a vain attempt to find civilization.
因为飞船受损无法起飞，杰里米特和卡特琳试图到四周寻求援助，但是一无所获。
Without opposing all these and without unity and progress, "resistance" will be just empty talk and victory a vain hope.
不这样做，没有团结和进步，所谓抗战只是空唤，抗日胜利是没有希望的。
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.
紧的鼻革是徒劳的掩饰，它只能说明你的马没有准备好去做你要求他做的事情。
He desired to prove through his work that it was not a vain thing to trust God for provisions and that God could be taken at his word.
他渴望藉著自己的工作，证明信靠上帝的供应并非徒然，上帝的话是可靠的。
The United States attorney-general is suing her as she sits, in a vain attempt to make her dissolve herself into constituent companies.
美国联邦检察长此刻正在起诉她，要让她把新泽西公司分解成系列子公司，而她却还在坐童车，岂不徒劳？
If you take the reflections from the hyperbolic mirror for the objects on the desk, you will for sure make a vain attempt to grasp them.
当你误把经双曲面镜反射的映像当作平台上存放的实物而用手去抓时，当然是什么也抓不到了。
Standing alone, I am a vain game for the sake of your knowing perfectly welling this, I still cheated me to pay all everythings by myself, remained.
孤独，我为了你明知这是场虚幻的游戏，我还骗我自己付出了所有的一切，只剩。
To be sure, there were several patches on him, but the tinsmiths did a good job, and as the Woodman was not a vain man he did not mind the patches at all.
不过，从此他身上有了好几个补钉，那是免不了的，可这些铁皮匠，已经把工作做得很出色，而且铁皮人并不是一个爱外表的虚荣的人，这些补钉，他不放在心上。
Human exceptionalism increasingly seems a vain fantasy. In its modest rejection of that vanity, Buddhism exhibits less error and less original sin, this one of pride.
人类例外论越看越是空想，在谦逊地拒绝自负方面，佛教更少露怯、也有更少的原罪，这点倒够引以为傲的了。
The tabletPC has been largely a vain attempt--certainly compared with thepopularity ofthe iPad--to meld the laptop with a tablet, based on the Windowstabletinterface.
同目前的流行的融合了笔记本电脑的平板电脑和基于图形界面数位板技术的IPAD比起来，很大程度上平板电脑之前一直做着徒劳的尝试
The tabletPC has been largely a vain attempt--certainly compared with thepopularity ofthe iPad--to meld the laptop with a tablet, based on the Windowstabletinterface.
同目前的流行的融合了笔记本电脑的平板电脑和基于图形界面数位板技术的IPAD比起来，很大程度上平板电脑之前一直做着徒劳的尝试
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