But, alas, for the vanity of human expectation!

真令人唏嘘，人类的希望竟是这样虚妄！

The wise man, seeing the vanity of all such fictitious charms, regards them as a dream, a mirage, a fantasy.

若有智人。正念观察妇人身体体性如是空无有主。犹如梦幻。

For others, the answer lies in refraining from the vanities of  modern life.

对于其他人来说，答案在于避免现代生活的虚荣。

His feigned timidity flattered the vanity of the Nuns, who endeavoured to reassure him.

他假装胆怯，使修女们的虚荣心得到满足，她们努力安抚他。

He smiled to think how little, at first, he had felt the vanity of it all.

他笑着想，起初，他对这一切的虚荣心感到多么微不足道。

A critique by definition does not " fully engage the vanity of its author" , he noted.

他指出，根据定义，批评并不能“充分利用其作者的虚荣心”。

It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed.

不可能让坦白更冷静， 或者用一种不那么鼓励被问者的虚荣心的语气。

Exploiting the vanity of the young Emperor, Vespasian used his public office to glorify the Emperor's victories and harshly punish those who  conspired against him.

维斯帕先利用年轻皇帝的虚荣心，利用自己的公职来颂扬皇帝的胜利，并严厉惩罚那些密谋反对他的人。

He had not rescued Hetty, nor changed the past—there it was, just as it had been, and he sickened at the vanity of his own rage.

他没有救出海蒂，也没有改变过去——就这样，就像过去一样，他厌倦了自己愤怒的虚荣心。

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

拥有一个见多识广的头脑就意味着无法满足他人的虚荣心，这是一个明智的人总是希望避免的。

They believe quia absurdum, because, in reality, if they did not believe in a stupid way, they would see the vanity of all that these brigands prescribe for them.

他们相信 quia absurdum，因为在现实中，如果他们不以愚蠢的方式相信，他们就会看到这些强盗为他们开出的所有处方都是徒劳的。

The difference of talents comes then to be taken notice of, and widens by degrees, till at last the vanity of the philosopher is willing to acknowledge scarce any resemblance.

才干的差异开始被注意到， 并逐渐扩大， 直到最后哲学家的虚荣心愿意承认几乎没有任何相似之处。

It is a matter for surprise that no one, during the assaults which have been recently delivered in France upon the vanity of science and the intellectuals, has thought of referring to these pages.

令人惊讶的是，在法国最近对科学和知识分子的虚荣心进行的攻击中，没有人想到提及这些页面。

In my public life I was striving after the emptiness of popular fame, going so far as to seek theatrical applause, entering poetic contests, striving for the straw garlands and the vanity of theatricals and intemperate desires.

在我的公共生活中， 我努力追求大众名声的空虚，甚至寻求戏剧的掌声，参加诗歌比赛， 争取稻草花环和戏剧的虚荣和无节制的欲望。

Yet nothing in the vanity of life struck him as more humiliating than that Harvard College, which he had persistently criticised, abused, abandoned, and neglected, should alone have offered him a dollar, an office, an encouragement, or a kindness.

然而，在虚荣的生活中，没有什么比他一直批评、辱骂、抛弃和忽视的哈佛大学更让他感到屈辱的了，哈佛大学竟然只应该给他一块钱、一个职位、一份鼓励或一份善意。

Edward could only attempt an explanation by supposing, that, perhaps, at first accidentally meeting, the vanity of the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest.

爱德华只能尝试这样解释：也许，在第一次偶然相遇时，一个人的虚荣心受到了另一个人的奉承的激发，从而逐渐导致了其余的一切。