English Dictionary

bonfire of the vanities

名詞

An act of burning, or otherwise destroying, that which is vain or a temptation to immorality.

日本語の意味

虚飾（むしょく）や虚栄心、不道徳の誘惑となるものを焼却・破壊する行為 / 無駄なものや見せかけの価値を燃やし捨てる行為 / 自己の虚栄や虚飾を断ち切る象徴的な破壊行為

In the market square, the reformers organized a bonfire of the vanities to purge the city of corrupt and tempting luxuries.

広場で改革派は、市を腐敗や誘惑に満ちた贅沢品から浄化するため、世俗的な虚栄を儀式的に焼き払う虚栄の焼却を行った。

意味（1）

An act of burning, or otherwise destroying, that which is vain or a temptation to immorality.

For the wild licence of the Carnival, for the Pagen pageantry that the Medicean princes had loved, for the sensual songs that had once floated up from every street of the City of Flowers — there were now bonfires of the vanities in the public squares; holocausts of immoral books, indecent pictures, all that ministered to luxury and wantonness (and much, too, that was very precious! ); there were processions in nonour of Christ and His Mother, there were new mystical lauds and hymns of divine love.

bonfires of the vanities （ plural ）