vanity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 自大, 虚荣; 无价值, 空虚，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it passed to me from you, to-morrow ' 'Which I have the vanity to hope is not probable.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Christ's expression there ought to be indeed an expression of pity, since there is an expression of love, of heavenly peace, of readiness for death, and a sense of the vanity of words.
-- It flattered his vanity that such a learned man should explain his ideas to him so eagerly, with such intensity and confidence in Levin's understanding of the subject, sometimes with a mere hint referring him to a whole aspect of the subject.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though he was busier than he had known anyone could ever be, with lipovaccines in the morning, physical chemistry in the evening and, at all sorts of intense hours between, the continuation of his staphylolysin research, he gave what time he could to seeking out Gottlieb and warming his vanity by reverent listening.
-- He had tentatively heard of her dead husband as a young man of wealth and family; he seemed to remember having seen in Vanity Fair a picture of the Lanyons at Palm Beach.
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：
-- He was evidently anxious to make a favourable impression and his vanity overcame his prudence.
-- But his vanity was at once reassured and flattered; he saw that they were really expecting him as an oracle.
-- This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.
-- The black snake of wounded vanity had been gnawing at his heart all night.
-- Even the poorest and most broken-spirited people are sometimes liable to these paroxysms of pride and vanity which take the form of an irresistible nervous craving.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The miserable vanity of these earth-worms!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Con-sidering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
-- The charming Augusta Hawkins, in addition to all the 220 Emmausual advantages of perfect beauty and merit, was in pos-session of an independent fortune, of so many thousands as would always be called ten; a point of some dignity, as well as some convenience: the story told well; he had not thrown himself away he had gained a woman of 10,000 l. or thereabouts; and he had gained her with such delightful rapidity the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice; the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the af-fair was so glorious the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's smiles and blushes rising in importance with consciousness and agitation richly scattered the lady had been so easily impressed so sweetly disposed had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally con-tented.
-- Such a woman as Jane Fairfax probably never fell in Mrs. Elton's way before and no degree of vanity can prevent her acknowledging her own comparative littleness in action, if not in consciousness.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The self-consciousness shown would have been vanity if a little more pronounced, dignity if a little less.
-- Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
-- A faint gleam of humour passed over her face as she said: "Bring Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy, and the Mourning Bride, and let me see Night Thoughts, and the Vanity of Human Wishes."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When his hostess accused him of being "a bit of a beau," he smiled with the vanity of a citizen whose foible is gratified.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes wasunknown to him; and his vanity would have suffered tremendously if he had found it out, for he liked to think thatwhen he bawled orders at the top of his voice everyone trembled and obeyed.
-- He didn't know!Her vanity leaped to the aid of her desire to believe, making belief acertainty.
-- That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it asthough such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
-- Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidencein her own charms.
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