也许这些都是虚荣心作怪,但我们对不同书籍有不同处置方法,把这些书陈列在客厅而那些则不保存,书籍可以充分体现出我们希望世界怎样看待自己。
It may be all about vanity, but books - how we arrange them, the ones we display in our public rooms, the ones we don't keep - say a lot about what we want the world to think about us.
我真是想笑又想骂——因为我估计这完全是女孩子的虚荣心——我终于有几分心软了,便问道。
And being really fully as inclined to laugh as scold — for I esteemed it all girlish vanity — I at length relented in a measure, and asked.
我对体重减轻有高兴的感觉,这令我有些惭愧,原因是我的背部,而不是我的虚荣心;然而,我还是有虚荣心的,要不然我也就不会有兴奋的感觉了。
I was slightly ashamed of being pleased about the weight loss, because the reason was my back, not vanity; nevertheless, that vanity is in me, otherwise I wouldn't be pleased.
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