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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The vain man always believes what he does is absolutely correct.

自负的人总是认为他做的一切都是绝对正确的。

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But wilt thou know, o vain man, that faith without works is dead?

虚浮的人哪，你愿意知道没有行为的信心是死的吗。

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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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This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout.

我曾认为这另外一个人,是爱好虚荣，粗鄙不堪的酒鬼。

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Rush, with his baritonal amplitude and fondness for mock pomp, makes the actor a vain, hollow man, grasping at something that he knows has eluded him his entire life.

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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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At bottom, Lord Duveen was vain, greedy and mightily pleased with himself, the sort of man one is rather glad to have met only in the pages of a book.

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