In vain you light your toilet lamp — it flickers and goes out in the wind.

你徒然点上晚妆的灯火——它颤摇着在风中熄灭了。

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In vain she points out to us the plain and direct way to truth, vanity, fancy, affection, and fashion assume her shape and wind us through fairy-ground to folly and error.

她徒然地为我们指出一条通向真理的笔直的坦途；而虚荣、幻想、矫情、时髦却俨然以她的面貌出现，暗中将我们引向虚幻的歧途，走向愚笨和谬误。

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We wind up with author, luminary, and longtime contributing editor Andrew Ferg-uson wandering the Web in vain search of, no, not love, but maybe just a reliable recommendation for osso buco.

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