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。

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There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.

从前，有一对男女，他们一直想要个孩子，但一直没有实现。

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It was in vain that Thenardier sought to conceal himself in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him.

德纳第想藏到树枝里去也枉然，他没有办法不让他看见。

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"For we assert," he says, "nature does nothing in vain and man alone " among the animals has speech.

他说，“因为我们主张自然演变并不无道理,而人类独立于其它动物之外,是因为我们有辩论能力。

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In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

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After Mancini's sacking, City's former kit man Stephen Aziz, described the Italian as "arrogant, vain and self-centred" in one of a series of tweets that were later deleted from his Twitter account on Tuesday.

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