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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first two years or so he had suspected that she wished to marry him herself, and that only her vanity prevented her telling him so.
-- It is not for money only, prince, that I am rushing into this affair,' he contin-ued, hardly master of his words, so closely had his vanity been touched.
-- Gratified vanity was visible in the glances he cast upon the assembled company.
-- 'Malthus was a friend of humanity, but, with ill-founded moral principles, the friend of humanity is the devourer of humanity, without mentioning his pride; for, touch the vanity of one of these numberless philanthropists, and to avenge his self-esteem, he will be ready at once to set fire to the whole globe; and to tell the truth, we are all more or less like that.
-- But Varvara Ardalionovna sometimes remarked that she felt spiteful; that there was a good deal of vanity in her, perhaps even of wounded vanity.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clouded cotton stockings, and shoes, on one of the latter of which was a plated spur, completed the costume of the lower extremity of this figure, no curve or angle of which was concealed, but, on the other hand, studiously ex-hibited, through the vanity or simplicity of its owner.
-- 'Le Renard Subtil does not eat,' he said, using the appella-tion he had found most flattering to the vanity of the Indian.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a matter of no little vanity to him on Sundays, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of cho-sen singers; where, in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from the parson.
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：
-- "You certainly have less vanity than any man I've ever known," I said.
-- It seems to me that when vanity comes into love it can only be because really you love yourself best.
-- It is an emotion made up of the satisfaction in security, pride of property, the pleasure of being desired, the gratification of a household, and it is only by an amiable vanity that women ascribe to it spiritual value.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, there was no necessity of abandoning these habits, since he had lost the strength of conviction as well as the resolution, the vanity and the desire to astonish people that he had possessed in his youth.
-- His discontent, due to the pettiness and vanity of his immediate superiors, grew until an opportunity offered to enter the Senate.
-- Hence the marriage to a young, pretty, distinguished girl flattered his vanity and gave him pleasure.
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：
-- For the rest of time she was established on the sand, built over a chasm, and, in spite of all her vanity and securities, any common maid-servant of positive, robust temper could fling her down this bottomless pit of insufficiency, by the slightest movement of jeering or contempt.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've said I did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then: besides, she hurt me extremely; so I started up from my knees, and screamed out, 'Oh, Miss, that's a nasty trick!You have no right to nip me, and I'm not going to bear it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vanity of Mrs. Hurstwood caused her to keep her person rather showily arrayed, but to Hurstwood this was much better than plainness.
-- She began to get the hang of those little things which the pretty woman who has vanity invariably adopts.
-- After the occurrence of Wednesday, he could not refuse, though the Phillips were about as uninteresting as vanity and ignorance could make them.
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