vainglory

基本解釋

Within weeks, though, vainglory turns into a costly and bloody quagmire.
盡管只有短短幾周時(shí)間，這種自負(fù)行為就陷入一場(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(lái)作為財(cái)政大臣的自負(fù)將在此次選舉中困擾著布朗先生。
“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)的公眾事件”，梅特卡夫眉開(kāi)眼笑地說(shuō)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