vain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 徒劳的, 无效果的; 自负的; 不尊敬的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian pur-poses; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
-- In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close, and were of a fine texture; 23his shoes and buckles, too, though plain, were trim.
-- But, no Hun-dreds of people came to see the sights, and Mr. Lorry looked in vain for the fulfilment of Miss Pross's prediction.
-- It is in vain I represent that I have acted for them, and not against, according to your commands.
-- It is in vain I rep-resent that, before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay; that I had collected no rent; that I had had recourse to no process.
-- It was in vain that I asked her for her family name.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poisonous flies and gnats swarmed around by thou-sands; in vain one waved myrtle-branches about like mad; the audacious insect population did not cease to sting; nor was there a single person in the well-crammed carriage whose face was not swollen and sore from their ravenous bites.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these traces of his life seemed to clutch him, and to say to him: "No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, but you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you."
-- The excited mare, trying to shake off her rider first on one side and then the other, pulled at the reins, and Vronsky tried in vain with voice and hand to soothe her.
-- He just had time to free his leg when she fell on one side, gasping painfully, and, making vain efforts to rise with her delicate, soaking neck, she fluttered on the ground at his feet like a shot bird.
-- he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then!you shall burn for this!"
-- At last, after despairing, breathless screaming, and vain sucking, things went right, and mother and child felt simultaneously soothed, and both subsided into calm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master after his own heart.
-- It was formerly defended by a noble fort, which has since become a state prison; its commerce has dwindled away, and Passepartout in vain looked about him for such a bazaar as he used to frequent in Regent Street.
-- Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict humanity!The Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.
-- Mr. Fogg applied in vain to the French and English consuls, and, after wandering through the streets a long time, began to despair of finding his missing servant.
-- Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr. Fogg; as vainly did the detective endeavour to make the quarrel his.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then behold the Dr. Martin Arrowsmith who had once infuriated Angus Duer and Irving Watters by his sarcasm on medical standards upholding to a lewdly grinning Bert Tozer the benevolence and scientific knowledge of all doctors; proclaiming that no medicine had ever (at least by any Winnemac graduate) been prescribed in vain nor any operation needlessly performed.
-- Driving home, Martin fell into vain and wicked boasting: "You bet I'll stick to it!At worst, I'll never be as bad as that snuffling old fee-splitter!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no, no!It's all in vain and it's no use talking!No use talk-ing!For more than once, my wish did come true and more than once she has felt for me but 芒聙娄 such is my fate and I am a beast by nature!'
-- The vain and foolish are particularly apt to fall into that snare; young people especially.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in vain to represent to her that someconveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from thisobjectionable practice.
-- I try in vain to recall how I feltabout it, and what its circumstances were; but it is not momentousin my recollection.
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