vainglorious
英 [,ve?n'ɡl??r??s]
美
- adj. 虛榮心強的；非常自負的
詞態(tài)變化
名詞:?vainglory;
中文詞源
vainglorious 自命不凡的
vain,虛無的，glory,輝煌。引申詞義自命不凡的。
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語例句
- 1. She is a vainglorious woman.
- 她是個愛虛榮的女性.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 2. Behind the words, at once self - pitying and vainglorious , the merits of the case were overwhelming.
- 在那些既是顧影自憐而又 自命不凡 的字眼后面, 事情本身的是非曲直是無可爭辯的.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Gal.5:26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
- 加五26不要貪圖虛榮,彼此惹氣, 互相嫉妒.
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