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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vanity was stronger than loveat sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in re-320 Gulliver's Travelsturn, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mick sat on tenterhooks, leaning forward in his chair, glaring at her almost hysterically: and whether he was more anxious out of vanity for her to say Yes!or whether he was more panic-stricken for fear she SHOULD say Yes! who can tell?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, truly!It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.
-- Nevertheless, Mrs Plornish, with a pardonable vanity in that accomplishment of hers which made her all but Italian, stepped in as interpreter.
-- They were always forgiving me, in their vanity and condescension.
-- Vanity has nothing to do with the declaration, for his admiration worried me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.'
-- That music has taken the vanity out of my as Rome took it out of her, and I won't be a humbug any longer.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory: there's the insanity of life!Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
-- So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
-- Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.'
-- There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost ev-ery attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.
-- 'You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! al-ways wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hear-ing the very best performers.'
-- Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pe-dantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance of her table, and of all her domestic arrangements; and from this kind of vanity was her greatest enjoyment in any of their parties.
-- She was remarkably quick in the discovery of attachments, and had enjoyed the advantage of raising the blushes and the vanity of many a young lady by insinuations of her power over such a young man; and this kind of discernment enabled her soon after her arrival at Barton decisively to pronounce that Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood.
-- She wondered that Lucy's spirits could be so very much elevated by the civility of Mrs. Ferrars; that her interest and her vanity should so very much blind her as to make the attention which seemed only paid her because she was NOT ELINOR, appear a compliment to herself or to allow her to derive encouragement from a preference only given her, because her real situation was unknown.
-- So you may think what a blow it was to all her vanity and pride.
-- Your sister's lovely person and interesting manners could not but please me; and her behaviour to me almost from the first, was of a kind It is astonishing, when I reflect on what it was, and what SHE was, that my heart should have been so insensible!But at first I must confess, my vanity only was elevated by it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was thinking of a full career of vanity and wastefulness which a young girl might indulge in, and wondering how Carrie could contemplate such a course when she had so little, as yet, with which to do.
-- There was the kind of vanity in Carrie that troubled at this.
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