That's bound to make Chinese elites a little vain and contemptful of the foreign devils.

这一定使中国的精英有点狂妄自大，看不起外国鬼子。

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“That sounds a little vain, ” Ella said . “I don’t want to make people think I’m too proud of myself .”

“那听起来有点自夸，”Ella说，“我不想让人们以为我太傲慢。”

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Trying to deconstruct why I do it, I'm not afraid to say that I'm at least a little vain, I wouldn't appear on television if I wasn't.

我尝试解构我为什么会这样做，但恐怕我只能说，我至少有那么点儿爱慕虚荣了。

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To me, an ornate primping station seems a little, well, vain: delovely in theory but, like a certain over-the-top sequined dress that hangs unworn in my closet, hard to pull off in practice.

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These ideas try to respond to two chronic worries of Japanese voters: that the economy will continue to slide, and that the construction state will cover what little remains of their country with concrete in a vain attempt to fix the problem.

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