| 单词 | blank |
| 释义 | blank (blæŋk ) Word forms: blanks , blanking , blanked 1. adjective B1 Something that is blank has nothing on it. We could put some of the pictures over on that blank wall over there. He tore a blank page from his notebook. ... a blank screen. Synonyms: unmarked, white, clear, clean 2. countable noun B2 A blank is a space which is left in a piece of writing or on a printed form for you to fill in particular information. Put a word in each blank to complete the sentence. Synonyms: empty space, space, gap 3. adjective If you look blank, your face shows no feeling, understanding, or interest. Abbot looked blank. 'I don't quite follow, sir' His daughter gave him a blank look. Synonyms: puzzled, lost, confused, stumped blankly adverb [ADVERB with verb] She stared at him blankly. blankness uncountable noun His eyes have the blankness of someone half-asleep. Synonyms: vacancy, indifference, abstraction, lack of interest 4. singular noun B2 If your mind or memory is a blank, you cannot think of anything or remember anything. I'm sorry, but my mind is a blank. I came round in hospital and did not know where I was. Everything was a complete blank. Synonyms: void, vacuum, vacancy, emptiness 5. countable noun [usually plural] Blanks are gun cartridges which contain explosive but do not contain a bullet, so that they cause no harm when the gun is fired. ...a starter pistol which only fires blanks. Synonyms: dud 6. See also point-blank 7. to draw a blank phrase If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them. [informal] They drew a blank in their search for the driver. 8. go blank phrase B2 If your mind goes blank, you are suddenly unable to think of anything appropriate to say, for example in reply to a question. My mind went totally blank. Phrasal verbs: blank out phrasal verb If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought. I learned to blank those feelings out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] I was trying to blank out previous situations from my mind. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Idioms: a blank cheque complete authority to do whatever you think is best De Klerk had, in a sense, been given a blank cheque to negotiate the new South Africa. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers draw a blank to not be able to find someone or something or find out about something I searched among the bottles and under and behind and inside everything I could think of and drew a blank. [mainly US] to be unable to remember something or to answer a question you are asked. Why do we recognize a face, but sometimes draw a blank when it comes to the name? [mainly British, journalism] to not score any goals or points, or win any races in a sports competition Goal-shy Raith drew a blank at home yet again. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: blank canvas Creamiest of the lot and not too salty, making it a great blank canvas. Times, Sunday Times (2007) But those tastefully pale walls are merely a blank canvas against which many carefully chosen pieces of furniture and artworks are displayed. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It adds character to a blank canvas and is cheap in the grand scheme of things. The Sun (2016) The white interiors offer a blank canvas. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It was a blank canvas. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He saw each blank card as a challenge, to amuse and entertain. Times, Sunday Times As he mentions their fortunes, another blank card falls from her sleeve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Otherwise, a blank card would be revealed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are also five blank cards so that readers can fill in their own statistics and those of their friends. Times, Sunday Times With each sentence presented on a card, participants were cued to recall the memorized end-of-sentence words in their original order by a blank card at the end of a series. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Soon, however, his blank expression switched to one of concern. Times, Sunday Times She stared back at me with a blank expression. Christianity Today Having no eyebrows and eyelashes completely changes the look of your face and the lack of definition leaves you with what can only be described as a blank expression. The Sun Her blank expression, however, was at odds with her deep, sweet, hauntingly hypnotic vocals, not to mention many of her lyrics. Times, Sunday Times I doubt if she'd have been so good with a permanent blank expression. The Sun Her solemn, blank face, caught by her camera in mirrors and windows, scolded us for prying. Times, Sunday Times Some were allowed to show their emotions, while others were asked to keep a blank face. The Sun The authors' houses presented a different kind of blank face, in their unprepossessing ordinariness. The Times Literary Supplement No smiles, no tears, just blank faces in the dark, a shuffling of feet, and the sound of the sea. Times, Sunday Times Blank faces greeted her as she enthused about limestone caves and waterfalls that the people who lived there had never seen. Times, Sunday Times How can it take up to six days to send out a blank form? Times, Sunday Times I asked it to prove that you had done that, but it just provided a blank form of the sort you should have completed. Times, Sunday Times Therefore, this was not a case of an accountant recklessly signing a blank form without regard to his duties as an auditor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At one time, messages prepared for electrical transmission were composed on a printed blank form with spaces for each part of the message and for administrative entries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it will give the campaign access to existing party membership lists and blank forms to sign up new members. Globe and Mail She gives me a blank look and says that her personal shopper didn't mention anything about accessories. Times, Sunday Times I have ever since sought a similar service in this country, making innumerable inquiries to recycling officers who could only respond with a blank look. Times, Sunday Times Sits in the stand with a blank look, spends 300 million, wins the league, smiles sloppily, buys another yacht, spends another 300 million. Times, Sunday Times He just had a blank look on his face. The Sun This time he buried the ball in the opposite corner and sauntered off with a blank look on his face. Times, Sunday Times His inspiration employed thousands: imagine the pressure of that blank page. Times, Sunday Times He enters rehearsals with a blank page and writes in collaboration with actors. Times, Sunday Times It's an impressive leap, like a pupil presenting a blank page to his teacher and saying it's there, written in invisible ink. Times, Sunday Times He glanced down at the almost blank page of his notebook. Times, Sunday Times He loves theatre, and compares the blank page to a stage. Times, Sunday Times In recovery, he drew a cartoon of himself, pencil in hand, at the foot of an endless roll of blank paper. Times, Sunday Times I wonder if a composer (born 1872, creator of nine symphonies) who lived there ever stared at blank paper? Times, Sunday Times One vignette: totalitarianism meant one could be sent to prison for smuggling blank paper. Times, Sunday Times Below the list was blank paper. Times, Sunday Times This new life promises to remake everything, but for now that everything remains blank paper. The Times Literary Supplement This led to the actual prorogation, which was as if the commissioners had walked into parliament with a blank piece of paper. Times, Sunday Times Start with a blank piece of paper and a pencil. Christianity Today Well, like many great stories, it starts with a blank piece of paper and a pen. Christianity Today He relished the challenge of a blank piece of paper in his typewriter (in those days) and no story at all. Times, Sunday Times You can't sit down and write that on a blank piece of paper. Times, Sunday Times We have a blank sheet of paper where we should have a plan. Times, Sunday Times Start with a blank sheet of paper, or 'tile', and draw a dot in each corner of the page. Times, Sunday Times Regrettably, pension reform never starts with a blank sheet of paper. Times, Sunday Times Unless you are lucky enough to have unlimited financial means, most start-ups begin with a blank sheet. Times,Sunday Times With a blank sheet the court would have taken that approach. Times, Sunday Times Before the invention of the balloon, the atmosphere was like a blank slate on which fantasies and fears were projected. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It speaks of the extent of his early success; of his controlling nature and of the blank slate that his mind has become. Times, Sunday Times These fears draw our attention to the camp's rich emotional landscape, another element of lived experience that remains a largely blank slate. The Times Literary Supplement He's adept with hisbodylanguage, a complete blank slate. Times, Sunday Times Generally speaking, we'd come into the studio every day with a blank slate and just begin playing. The Sun And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Leave as little blank space between entries as is possible. A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995) In order to fill the ensuing blank space the printer set prose as verse, and someone in the printing house had to invent stop-gap phrases. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) There's a terrible blank space after a launch party. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It begins as a blank square visible on a web page hosted on the museum's website, but responds when clicked by visitors to the site. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The numbers were then replaced with blank squares, and participants had to remember which numeral appeared in which location, and touch the squares in the right order. Times, Sunday Times When completed, the squares that have lines are filled; the contrast with the blank squares reveals the picture. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Blank squares may be included in this protocol. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When angered, she goes silent; and, as one courtier put it, she has a terrifyingly blank stare that could stop a tank. Times, Sunday Times Another time, meet the words with only a blank stare. Christianity Today In the buffet car our requests for gluten-free snacks are met with a blank stare. Times, Sunday Times While we've been refunded, my requests that the debits be logged as a crime were met with a blank stare, and other questions went unanswered. Times, Sunday Times Usually he's asked to repeat the name, but there's still a blank stare, a shaking of the head. The Times Literary Supplement A succession of completely blank canvases of different sizes. Times, Sunday Times After that date, the pages went almost completely blank. Times, Sunday Times I approached him and went completely blank and didn't know what to say. The Sun He trained only eight jumps winners between 2002 and 2010, including three completely blank seasons. Times, Sunday Times I work in oil, starting with a completely blank canvas measuring five metres by three. Times, Sunday Times Fill the blank page with scrawl, with rubbish, just like a five-year-old would. Times, Sunday Times He can fill the blank. Times, Sunday Times At the back, the reader was invited to fill the blank space with his own poems. Times, Sunday Times This strip was initially intended to fill a blank spot in the magazine, but later took on a life of its own. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 77-year-old author also recounts the brain's remarkable capacity for filling the blank space in his vision with elaborate images. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 空白的, 空白 Japanese: 白紙の, 空欄 |
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