the absurdest of absurd vanities: it is the love of pleasure, not the love of happiness.

是荒谬绝伦的逢场作戏，是寻欢作乐的爱，不是幸福的爱。

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But outside the laboratory, he is like anybody else with his prejudices, with his ambitions, with his nationality, with his vanities, with his jealousies, and all the rest of it.

但走出实验室，他就像任何其他人一样拥有偏见、野心、民族主义、虚荣、嫉妒及诸如此类的东西。

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The ordinary way of understanding life is vanity of vanities. However big the result is according to earthly measures, sooner or later it will fail.

一般了解生活的方式只是空洞中的空洞，不管成果有多大，都只是根据俗世的标准，迟早都会破败。

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