vain
vain 英 [veɪn] 美 [ven]
adj. 徒劳的；
比较级:vainer 最高级:vainest
- If you spend all day admiring yourself in reflective surfaces — mirrors, pools of water, the backs of spoons — people may think you are conceited or vain.
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- adj. 徒劳的；
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1. I knocked loudly in the vain hope that someone might answer.
我敲门敲得很响，希望有人应声，却是徒然。
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2. hey tried in vain to persuade her to go.
他们极力劝说她去，但枉费了一番口舌。
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3. All our efforts were in vain.
我们的所有努力都付诸东流了。
- vain (adj.) c. 1300, "devoid of real value, idle, unprofitable," from Old French vain, vein "worthless, void, invalid, feeble; conceited" (12c.), from Latin vanus "empty, void," figuratively "idle, fruitless," from PIE *wano-, suffixed form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out."
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