20140201 每日三單字 (perseverance / vanity / famine )

perseverance
堅持不懈；堅忍不拔
By perseverance the crippled boy learned how to swim . 那個跛足的男孩透過不屈不撓的努力學會了游泳。

vanity


自負；虛榮（心）[U]
He did that to gratify [u]his girlfriend ' s vanity . 他做那事是要滿足他女友的虛榮心。
虛幻；無意義，無益[U]
the vanity of a selfish life 利己生活的空虛無聊
無價值的東西[C]
I had forsaken the vanities of the world . 我已將人世的無聊瑣事置之不理。

famine

饑荒[C][U]
Drought has caused famine in Africa . 乾旱在非洲造成了饑荒。
飢餓[U]

奇缺[C][U]
There was a famine of water in this locality . 這地方有過水荒