a vainglorious + noun
作定语置于名词前，带贬义，指过度虚荣或自视过高。
The memoirs paint him as a vainglorious man obsessed with his own legend.
回忆录把他描绘成一个痴迷于自身传奇的虚荣自负的人。
虚荣自负的；自命不凡的
过度虚荣或无端骄傲的。；自以为了不起的；自负的；虚荣心强的
过度虚荣或无端骄傲的。
Possessing excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.
His vainglorious speech annoyed everyone at the meeting.
他在会上虚荣自负的发言惹恼了大家。
用法提示：vainglorious 作定语修饰 speech，表示“虚荣自负的”。
After winning the award, she became vainglorious and ignored her old friends.
获奖之后，她变得虚荣自负，不再理睬老朋友。
用法提示：vainglorious 作表语，与 became 连用，表示“变得虚荣自负的”。
He was too vainglorious to admit that the idea came from his colleague.
他过于虚荣自负，不肯承认这个主意来自同事。
用法提示：vainglorious 作表语，构成 too...to... 结构，表示“过于虚荣自负而不肯…”。
作定语置于名词前，带贬义，指过度虚荣或自视过高。
The memoirs paint him as a vainglorious man obsessed with his own legend.
回忆录把他描绘成一个痴迷于自身传奇的虚荣自负的人。
作表语，常用于系动词后，描述人的言辞或态度。
He sounded vainglorious when he took sole credit for the team's success.
他把团队的成功完全归功于自己时，听起来很虚荣自负。
用 it 作形式主语来评价某行为，语气较正式。
It is vainglorious to claim that one person alone saved the company.
声称仅凭一人之力拯救了公司，是虚荣自负的说法。
grammar · medium
易错句子After the award, he grew vaingloriouser than ever.
正确表达After the award, he grew more vainglorious than ever.
vainglorious 是多音节形容词，比较级要用 more 构成，不能加 -er；因此 more vainglorious 正确，vaingloriouser 不合语法。
grammar · medium
易错句子He spoke vainglorious about his success.
正确表达He spoke in a vainglorious way about his success.
spoke 是动词，需用副词或介词短语作状语；形容词 vainglorious 不能直接修饰动词，改成 in a vainglorious way 后句子才合语法。
grammar · medium
易错句子His vainglorious annoys his colleagues.
正确表达His vainglorious nature annoys his colleagues.
vainglorious 是形容词，不能单独作主语或名词；需补出被修饰的名词（如 nature），或改用名词 vainglory。
vain 更常用，常指对外表、能力等过于自负，也可表示“徒劳的”；vainglorious 更书面、文学化，强调过度的虚荣和无端的骄傲，并常带自夸意味。
boastful 侧重用言语吹嘘自己的成就或优点；vainglorious 是更书面的整体性格评价，指过度虚荣、无端自负，不一定靠说话表现出来。
glorious 是褒义词，表示光荣、壮丽或辉煌；vainglorious 因词形相近容易被误用，但它是贬义词，指过度虚荣自负，并非“极其光荣”。
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