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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when she let down her hair, which she did now and then, for she was vain of it, you saw that it was long and dark and curly; and her eyes had remained young and vivacious.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they searched in vain for wood or dry brambles; nothing but sand and stones were to be found.
-- Pencroft searched in vain for some of those precious palm-trees which am employed in so many ways in domestic life, and which have been found as far as the fortieth parallel in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the thirty-filth only in the Southern Hemisphere.
-- "I have looked in vain for anything that's worth the trouble of stooping for."
-- But it was in vain too for the hunters to pursue such agile game, which went bounding away like balls.
-- "Who knows if we might not find on the opposite side one of the caverns which we have searched for in vain here?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's in vain to fight with it; I can't do it; go on.'
-- The child and her grandfather, after waiting in vain to thank them or ask them whither they should go, passed through a dirty lane into a crowded street, and stood, amid its din and tumult, and in the pouring rain, as strange, bewildered, and confused, as if they had lived a thousand years before, and were raised from the dead and placed there by a miracle.
-- It was in vain for Kit's mother to protest that she stood in need of nothing of the kind.
-- But it was in vain to urge them to adopt some other course.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he considered it necessary to curtail his needs, wore an old coat and gave up wine-drinking, everybody considered it eccentric and vain originality; but when he spent large sums in organizing a chase, or building an unusual, luxurious cabinet, everybody praised his taste and sent him valuable gifts.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't tease so,' said Alice, looking about in vain to see where the voice came from; 'if you're so anxious to have a joke made, why don't you make one yourself?'
-- Alice knocked and rang in vain for a long time, but at last, a very old Frog, who was sitting under a tree, got up and hobbled slowly towards her: he was dressed in bright yellow, and had enormous boots on.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.
-- I was tired, at any rate; but had I been as fresh as when I rose, I could see it was in vain for me to contend in speed with such an adversary.
-- Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.
-- Yet there were still three upon that island Silver, and old Morgan, and Ben Gunn who had each taken his share in these crimes, as each had hoped in vain to share in the reward.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But vain excitement!The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse.
-- So, for want of better, I talked to myself; I declaimed in the copper box which covered my head, thereby expending more air in vain words than was perhaps wise.
-- The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.
-- And, burying his face quickly in his hands, he tried in vain to suppress a sob.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In vain she fluttered the leaves of books, or made statuettes in clay.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A vain idea!The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, "What, done already?"
-- CHAPTER 4 WHAT vain weathercocks we are!I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip, and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk.
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