vain的意思和读音

vain

: [veɪn] : [veɪn]

adj.

vainer  vainest  

adj.+n.vain attempt,vain hope

adj.humble,successful,reliable

adj.conceited,proud,narcissistic,vainglorious,arrogant

vainadj.

1.that does not produce the result you want

She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.

I knocked loudly in the vain hope that someone might answer.

2.too proud of your own appearance, abilities or achievements

She's too vain to wear glasses.

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adj.1.someone who is vain is very proud and thinks they are very attractive or special2.unsuccessful, or useless

1. V vacation n. vain n. valley n. , ...

2. V vacation n. vain n. valley n. , ...

3. vague a. 37. vain n. 38. extinct a. 39. ...

4. victory n. vain adj. ;; vivid adj. ;; ...

5. victory n. vain adj. ;; vivid adj. ;; ...

6. funeral n. vain adj. in vain ...

7. vague a. , 37. vain n. , 38. extinct a. , 39. ...

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1.He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come(= it was impossible).

2.A tight noseband is a vain attempt to disguise the fact that your horse is not ready for the things you are asking him to do.

3.For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.便

4.Now grown up, for you; I am strong, and for you; I changed for you. I know it is all in vain!

5.An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference, is unreasonable and vain.

6.All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.

7.We have been waiting for her to come back to see us, but (we have been waiting) in vain.。【

8.The United States attorney-general is suing her as she sits, in a vain attempt to make her dissolve herself into constituent companies.西

9.A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.西

10.The two halves on the Korean Peninsula have been trying to get reunited for several decades yet in vain.