单词	vainly
释义	vainly /ˈveɪnli / adverb 1With an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth: I stared at myself vainly in the mirror they were vainly looking at old videos of themselves... He vainly affects a George Raft hairdo and would-be virile gestures that go soft before they are half over. In the 1950s, she was vainly hanging on to her former glamour-girl image. The ego is a vainly expressed personality. 2In a way that produces no result; to no avail: I was vainly trying to get to sleep she searched vainly for a pulse... He vainly tries to protect an absconding teenager from the police. She sought any work she could get, including temporary jobs in a clerical pool, while vainly applying for arts fellowships. After a chance encounter in a cafe ends up in a brief liaison, he tries vainly to track her down. 2.1With no likelihood of fulfilment: he vainly hoped to be appointed master he falls hopelessly and vainly in love with her... She plays the pretty hoyden that Conroy vainly longs for. I can only vainly aspire to ever possessing a fraction of the skills of Proust or Fitzgerald. People whose tenor of life is godless often imagine vainly that they will have time to take care of the end when it comes.
随便看	folder folderol folding door folding money fold one's arms fold one's hands fold-out foley folia foliaceous foliage foliage leaf foliar foliar feed foliar feeding foliate foliated foliate head foliation folic acid folie de grandeur Folies-Bergère folie à deux folio foliole

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