the vanity of something

literaryUNIMPORTANT the lack of importance of something compared to other things that are much more important 某事物〔相比于其他事物〕的微不足道

Examples from the Corpus

the vanity of something• Instead, he had directed his talents to bolstering the vanity of the military and the higher-paid members of the Civil service.• She blinked artificial eyelashes over wide, brown eyes that were smarting from the vanity of contact lenses.• By using key lines as verbal motifs, Pimlott also turns the play into a sombre meditation on the vanity of power.• Herodotos here shakes his head over the vanity of human wishes.• For conservatives it represented the vanity of social engineering and the breakdown of the liberal state in the face of impossible demands.

→ the vanity of something at vanity(1)

单词	the vanity of something
释义	the vanity of something the vanity of something literaryUNIMPORTANT the lack of importance of something compared to other things that are much more important 某事物〔相比于其他事物〕的微不足道 Examples from the Corpus the vanity of something• Instead, he had directed his talents to bolstering the vanity of the military and the higher-paid members of the Civil service.• She blinked artificial eyelashes over wide, brown eyes that were smarting from the vanity of contact lenses.• By using key lines as verbal motifs, Pimlott also turns the play into a sombre meditation on the vanity of power.• Herodotos here shakes his head over the vanity of human wishes.• For conservatives it represented the vanity of social engineering and the breakdown of the liberal state in the face of impossible demands. → the vanity of something at vanity(1)
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