| 词汇 | vain |
| 释义 | vain adjective uk /veɪn/ us /veɪn/ vainadjective (NOT SUCCESSFUL)C2 unsuccessful; of no value: 徒劳的；枉然的；无用的 The doctors gave him more powerful drugs in the vain hope that he might recover.医生们给他服用了更强效的药，希望他能够康复，却是徒然。 formalIt was vain to pretend to himself that he was not disappointed.他没办法欺骗自己说不觉得失望。 not producing a desired result unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful. failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product. badSales have been really bad this quarter. fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway. unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful. in vain C1 unsuccessfully: 徒劳地；枉然地；无用地 I tried in vain to start a conversation.我极力想挑起话头，但没有成功。 All the police's efforts to find him were in vain.警方竭力想要找到他，但所有努力终是徒劳。 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unpractical unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unsuccessful (people and things) vainadjective (SELFISH)C2 too interested in your own appearance or achievements: 虚荣的;自负的 He was very vain about his hair and his clothes.他很虚荣，在发型和衣着方面非常讲究。 Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistic egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic patronizing patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously swaggerer swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom vain | American Dictionaryvain adjective[ -er/-est only ] us/veɪn/ vainadjective[-er/-est only] (UNSUCCESSFUL)unsuccessful or useless; failing to achieve a purpose: a vain attempt to avoid responsibility Employers clearly hoped that the workers would stay longer, but their efforts were largely in vain (= unsuccessful). vainadjective[-er/-est only] (SELFISH)too proud of yourself, esp. in your appearance or achievements Examples of vainvain As he quite logically pointed out, no one would be vain of literacy in a society where everyone was literate. I too hoped and waited for one until now- but in vain. He could hardly have expounded his position more clearly: quite bluntly, any plans to abolish music are described as vain. The overarching problem that inspired the controversy is an essential discrepancy that one hopes, in vain, is merely literary or typographical. The reforming conductor's efforts were in vain; thus 'rue', an old-fashioned literary word for regret. Not in vain were the author and reciter of the epic called sarvadarshi, all-seeing. Their efforts were largely in vain, however, since the separate disciplines tended to continue on their way unaffected by the rhetoric of unity. I looked in vain for the terms theropod, cynodont and perissodactyl and yet some 10% of the definitions are apparently devoted to palaeontology. The choice has been problematic and those familiar with the historic issues of the journal may search in vain for their favourites. Schlageter's life had thus been pointless, his death in vain. The vain pathos of the tortoises' courtship was reinforced by their superficial appearance. In vain would they assemble for this purpose the wisest statisticians, the most expert merchants, the most skilled manufacturers, and the ablest administrators. In short, it was the moral type of the vain, the superficial and the narcissistic, and the only emotion it could inspire was 'contempt'. Their main arguments were moral-theological: experimentation and the use of microscopes were vain and wicked. Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. See all examples of vain These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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