| 单词 | vanity fair |
| 释义 | Vanity Fairnoun(in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity. (often lowercase) any place or group, as the world or fashionable society, characterized by or displaying a preoccupation with idle pleasures or ostentation. (italics) a novel (1847–48) by Thackeray. Words nearby Vanity Fairvanitas, vanitory, vanity, vanity bag, vanity case, Vanity Fair, Vanity of vanities; all is vanity, vanity plate, vanity plates, vanity press, vanity publishing Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Vanity FairVanity Fair noun(often not capitals) literary the social life of a community, esp of a great city, or the world in general, considered as symbolizing worldly frivolity Word Origin for Vanity Fairfrom Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for Vanity FairVanity Fair (1847–1848) A novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The leading character is Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous woman who gains wealth and influence by her cleverness. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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