单词
vainglorious
英 [,ve?n'ɡl??r??s]
美
基本信息
- adj. 虚荣心强的；非常自负的
词态变化
名词:?vainglory;
中文词源
vainglorious 自命不凡的
vain,虚无的，glory,辉煌。引申词义自命不凡的。
英文词源
- vainglorious
- vainglorious: see glory
- vainglorious (adj.)
- early 15c., from vainglory + -ous, or from Old French vain glorios "boastful, swaggering." Related: Vaingloriously; vaingloriousness. Groce ("Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 3rd ed., 1796) has vain-glorious man "One who boasts without reason, or, as the canters say, pisses more than he drinks."
双语例句
- 1. She is a vainglorious woman.
- 她是个爱虚荣的女性.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 2. Behind the words, at once self - pitying and vainglorious , the merits of the case were overwhelming.
- 在那些既是顾影自怜而又 自命不凡 的字眼后面, 事情本身的是非曲直是无可争辩的.
来自辞典例句
- 3. Gal.5:26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
- 加五26不要贪图虚荣,彼此惹气, 互相嫉妒.
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