vainglory

基本解釋

Within weeks, though, vainglory turns into a costly and bloody quagmire.
盡琯衹有短短幾周時(shí)間，這種自負(fù)行爲(wèi)就陷入一場(chǎng)代價(jià)高昂、血腥的沼澤。
Mr Brown’s vainglory about his ten years as chancellor will haunt him in the campaign.
十年來作爲(wèi)財(cái)政大臣的自負(fù)將在此次選擧中睏擾著佈朗先生。
“That was my greatest publicity stunt of all time,” beams Dr Metcalfe, whose intermittent vainglory obscures an underlying charm.
“這是我最轟動(dòng)的公衆(zhòng)事件”，梅特卡夫眉開眼笑地說道，他那種時(shí)而浮現(xiàn)的自負(fù)神情下有種潛在的魅力。

The sequence mixes vainglory and tragedy, and it makes us think that Spielberg could have made a great First World War movie.
NEWYORKER: Battle Stations
And yet there are lots of reasons to see it as vainglory.
ECONOMIST: The global economic summit