VANITY

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Traducere în limba română

vanity s.

1. zădărnicie, deşertăciune, vanitate;

vanity fair bâlciul deşertăciunilor.

2. vanitate; îngâmfare: orgoliu;

to do smth. out of vanity a face ceva din vanitate;

to tickle smb.'s vanity a gâdila / a măguli vanitatea cuiva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

But his honour, out of curiosity, and, perhaps, (if I may speak without vanity,) partly out of kindness, was determined to see me in my canoe, and got several of his neighbouring friends to accompany him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

For the Preacher loved life, and did not want to die, saying, ‘For a living dog is better than a dead lion.’ He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admiration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But one thing may be said for me: even in that horrid state of selfish vanity, I did not know the extent of the injury I meditated, because I did not THEN know what it was to love.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Grant, with a temper to love and be loved, must have gone with some regret from the scenes and people she had been used to; but the same happiness of disposition must in any place, and any society, secure her a great deal to enjoy, and she had again a home to offer Mary; and Mary had had enough of her own friends, enough of vanity, ambition, love, and disappointment in the course of the last half-year, to be in need of the true kindness of her sister's heart, and the rational tranquillity of her ways.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He had seen a group of old acquaintance in the street as he passed—he had not stopped, he would not stop for more than a word—but he had the vanity to think they would be disappointed if he did not call, and much as he wished to stay longer at Hartfield, he must hurry off.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She wondered that Lucy's spirits could be so very much elevated by the civility of Mrs. Ferrars;—that her interest and her vanity should so very much blind her as to make the attention which seemed only paid her because she was NOT ELINOR, appear a compliment to herself—or to allow her to derive encouragement from a preference only given her, because her real situation was unknown.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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