Was heißt »ei­tel« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Es ist alles ganz eitel, sprach der Prediger, es ist alles ganz eitel.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Im Stil eingebildeter Leute, spickt er seine Sätze mit unreifen englischen Wörtern. Eine Art gescheiterter, eitler Mann, jeder Klasse beraubt.

In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.

„Wie ist bei euch das Wetter?“ – „Gestern Dauerregen, heute eitel Sonnenschein.“

"What's the weather like where you are?" "Constant rain yesterday, nothing but sun today."

"What's the weather like where you are?" "Yesterday it did nothing but rain, while today it's unbroken sunshine."

Wir leben nicht um eitler Unterhaltung willen.

We do not live for idle amusement.

Ich sah an alles Tun, das unter der Sonne geschieht; und siehe, es war alles eitel und Haschen nach dem Wind.

I have seen everything done in this world, and I tell you, it is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.

Er ist faul und eitel.

He's lazy and vain.

Synonyme

bar:

bare

blank:

shiny

bloß:

bare

ko­kett:

coquettish

lau­ter:

pure

sincere

nar­ziss­tisch:

narcissistic

nichts als:

nothing but

pur:

absolute

pure

rein:

clean

schier:

sheer

to­tal:

complete

total

Englische Beispielsätze

• Our cat tried in vain to catch a butterfly.

• Were all their efforts in vain?

• He tried in vain to give up smoking.

• Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?

• The ship's crew waited in vain for a favourable wind.

• I have tried in vain to contact him.

• Nothing was in vain.

• It was all in vain.

• John tried in vain to work out the problem.

• Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against thinking that it is in vain to try to halt the spread of the virus.

• He saw that his efforts were in vain.

• He realised his efforts were in vain.

• Have you ever used God's name in vain?

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

• Tom is waiting in vain.

• Tom and Mary tried in vain to hide their pain.

• In vain I begged him to tell me more.

• But there was no sign of him, and it was in vain that I shouted.

• It's a sin to use the Lord's name in vain.

• Tom did not die in vain. He died a hero.