英和和英

読み方 きょえいしん

名詞

Vanity; vainglory

用例

• 女は虚栄心が強い
  Women are vain creatures.

• あの男は虚栄心が強い
  He is a vain fellow―a vainglorious man.
• 虚栄心に駆られる
  to be impelled by vanity
• 虚栄心に駆られて悪事を働く女がある
  Vanity impels some women to crime.
• 虚栄心を脱しなければ人は偉くなれぬ
  A man can not attain greatness unless he rises above vanity.
• 虚栄心を養う
  to foster one's vanity
• 虚栄心を挑発する
  to pique one's vanity
• 虚栄心を満たす
  to gratify one's vanity―tickle one's vanity―cater for one's vanity―pander to one's vanity