life is vainとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Vain is the life of that man who putteth his trust in men or in any created Thing.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

人間たちに、あるいは被造物に信頼をおく者はむなしい。 - Thomas a Kempis『キリストにならいて』

"To think that a man has but fifty years to live under Heaven… Surely this world is nothing but a vain dream. Living but one life, is there anything that will not decay?"発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

『人間五十年、下天のうちをくらぶれば、夢幻の如くなり。一度生を享け滅せぬもののあるべきか』 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

In spite of your promising words "sasemo" (the name of a grass) that I had been relying on like a blessing of dewdrops, again my hopes didn't bear fruit this autumn and my life is passing by in vain. ('Senzaishu' (Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years) Miscellaneous, 1023)発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

ちぎりおきしさせもが露をいのちにてあはれ今年の秋もいぬめり　（「千載集」雑・1023） - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

It is said that, before the castle tower burst into flames, Harunaga ONO begged for the life of Hideyori in exchange for the delivery of Senhime in vain and Hideyori committed suicide in Yamazato Kuruwa together with his mother, Yodo-dono, Harunaga ONO.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

天守閣炎上の前に、大野治長は千姫をひきわたすことで秀頼の助命を嘆願したといわれているが果たせず、秀頼は母・淀殿や大野治長らとともに山里曲輪で自害した。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス