| 单词 | hollow |
| 释义 | hollow (hɒloʊ ) Word forms: hollows , hollowing , hollowed 1. adjective Something that is hollow has a space inside it, as opposed to being solid all the way through. ...a hollow tree. ...a hollow cylinder. Synonyms: empty, vacant, void, unfilled 2. adjective A surface that is hollow curves inwards. He looked young, dark and sharp-featured, with hollow cheeks. 3. countable noun A hollow is a hole inside a tree. I made my home there, in the hollow of a dying elm. 4. countable noun A hollow is an area that is lower than the surrounding surface. Below him the town lay warm in the hollow of the hill. [+ of/in/between] ...where water gathers in a hollow and forms a pond. Synonyms: cavity, cup, hole, bowl 5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe a statement, situation, or person as hollow, you mean they have no real value, worth, or effectiveness. Any threat to bring in the police is a hollow one. ...a hollow man who's coasted on charm for far too long. Synonyms: worthless, empty, useless, vain hollowness uncountable noun One month before the deadline we see the hollowness of these promises. [+ of] 6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If someone gives a hollow laugh, they laugh in a way that shows that they do not really find something amusing. Murray Pick's hollow laugh had no mirth in it. Synonyms: insincere, false, artificial, cynical 7. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A hollow sound is dull and echoing. ...the hollow sound of a gunshot. Synonyms: dull, low, deep, flat 8. verb [usually passive] If something is hollowed, its surface is made to curve inwards or downwards. The mule's back was hollowed by the weight of its burden. [be VERB-ed] ...her high, elegantly hollowed cheekbones. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: scoop out, dig out, excavate, gouge out Phrasal verbs: hollow out phrasal verb If you hollow something out, you remove the inside part of it. Someone had hollowed out a large block of stone. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Bake some big red peppers and hollow them out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Idioms: ring hollow if a statement or promise rings hollow, it seems false, or insincere Details of his 27-year affair have been revealed to all. His speeches on family values and the stability of marriage ring hollow now. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat someone hollow [British] to defeat someone completely Waterman was the first independent operator to take on the big boys at the pop game and beat them hollow. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: hollow eyes Envied their hollow eyes and wheezing shortness of breath, the ruby fleck on the linen hankie and the purple licence that sickness endows the writer with. Times, Sunday Times Anyway, he's back, with his hollow eyes and bolts through his neck, demanding the people's will be ignored. The Sun Some branded him a disgrace who had wasted lottery money, but the sunken cheeks, hollow eyes and frighteningly bony shoulders told another story. Times, Sunday Times His cheeks are rosy and youthful, which contrasts with the hollow eyes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If this leaves you with the hollow feeling that comes with a lack of challenges, it's only temporary. Times, Sunday Times I've taken no satisfaction at all from sending other teams down - it leaves you with an empty, hollow feeling inside. The Sun I also over-exerted myself at the gym while having a hollow feeling in my stomach. The Sun Defeat would be difficult to swallow and leave him with a hollow feeling. Times, Sunday Times But because of it, the town has an empty, hollow feeling. The Sun He gave a hollow laugh, but it's no joke. Times, Sunday Times She gets how bad it sounds (how bad it was) and gives a hollow laugh. Times, Sunday Times That may raise a hollow laugh right now. Times, Sunday Times Recently, a darker tone has emerged: she's still laughing, but it's a hollow laugh. Times, Sunday Times Out comes the hollow laugh again. Times, Sunday Times What about a hollow log? The Sun The exhibit consists of two separate meadows with a rocky creek, hollow log, and other landscaping. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the wild, virtually all parrot species require a hollow tree or a hollow log as a nest site. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was recaptured the next day by a hollow log near the river. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes, a hollow log, streambank, rockpile, cave, or dense shrub will play the role as a den. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's nonsurgical - the threads, made from suturing material, are inserted via a cannula [a hollow needle] into the face, without risk of the bulkiness of fillers. Times, Sunday Times The suggestion of a hollow needle seems somewhat unlikely. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After that, the piercer puts the jewel in the hollow needle and pushes the needle through until the jewel enters into the lobe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are developing clusters of hollow needles that are so fine patients won't feel them piercing their skin. Times, Sunday Times As the stems and needles penetrated the victim, venom would flow through the hollow needles and into the puncture wound. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Exchanging small talk and a hollow promise to see each other 'another time', they part. The Times Literary Supplement Both need more than hollow promises of unity and cooperation before the rest of the world flies home. The Sun Is it that men are thought to be more easily swayed by hollow promises? Times, Sunday Times They said that its donation claims were more likely to be 'hollow promises'. Times, Sunday Times These are hollow promises and deep down we know it. The Sun But this often felt like a parody of the modern political world rendered in the same hollow rhetoric of that arena. Times, Sunday Times Or, conversely, it could end up as hollow rhetoric. Times, Sunday Times But for this to be more than hollow rhetoric, three things must happen. Times, Sunday Times Pull out the soft bread from the centre so you are left with a hollow shell. The Sun You should be left with a hollow shell. Times, Sunday Times A milk chocolate hollow shell, plus 100g bag of mini creme eggs. The Sun The junkie has been described by fellow lags as 'a hollow shell' after he refused to use shower rooms or talk to other prisoners. The Sun He needs to establish how he intends to buck the historical trend and emerge from coalition a stronger party, rather than a hollow shell. Times, Sunday Times A built-in microphone would pick up the hollow sound produced by the air pockets found in all mines and warn the probe's operator. Times, Sunday Times The echoing, hollow sound at the other end of the line told me he was still spending a lot of time in the bathroom. Times, Sunday Times She pulls him down to the couch, forces his hand on her lower leg, knocks it against her prosthesis, and it makes a hollow sound. Times, Sunday Times There'd just be an unpleasant hollow sound as the sharp bit went in. The Sun Tap the pot's sides, too; a dull hollow sound will confirm it. Times, Sunday Times The walls of the coal shell were about 3/8 inch thick, creating a hollow space inside sufficient to hold 34 ounces of gunpowder. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a closed spandrel stone arch bridge the hollow space can be filled with rubble and loose material. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The engulfed material eventually burns or decays away, but ends up leaving a hollow space with the original shape. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the 19th and 20th centuries, more specific messages were attached to the clubs or inserted into a hollow space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These caskets contain more or less complex, usually invisible opening mechanisms which reveal a small hollow space on opening. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hollow stem can be chopped up and eaten like chives. Times, Sunday Times In some plants, the pith in the middle of the stem may dry out and disintegrate, resulting in a hollow stem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The cylindrical, hollow stem measures 2.53.4cmin 1 by 45mm in thick, androughly equal in width through its length except for a bulbous base. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A flute-like instrument with a clarinet-like sound can be made of its hollow stem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hollow stem measures 50to90mm in long by 13 mm thick. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It may, of course, turn out to be a hollow threat. Times, Sunday Times That isn't a hollow threat, it's based on facts. The Sun Is it a hollow threat? Globe and Mail You can't count the rings of a hollow tree. Times, Sunday Times A few years ago a colony nested in a hollow tree in our garden. Times, Sunday Times The red-bellied woodpecker had spent hours building her home in a hollow tree, before flying off to find food. The Sun You will have to scoop up the ladybirds and eject them — into a shed, a covered compost bin, a hollow tree trunk or another dry hollow. Times,Sunday Times This came from one of the traditional hives, made from hollow tree trunks, which he tended to. Times, Sunday Times We pass one whose hollow trunk has rotted away so completely that only a hinge of greenwood connects the tree's superstructure to its base. Times, Sunday Times Only when the workers began to chain-saw through the hollow trunk to get at the bear did it finally climb the trunk and emerge. The Sun Smoothly worn patches riddled with holes bored by deathwatch beetles will one day become windows into the hollow trunk. Times, Sunday Times Despite decades of work to shore it up with cables, the tree's hollow trunk was crumbling and its upper limbs were unsound, leaving it too weak to hold new supports. Times, Sunday Times Its hollow trunk acted like a furnace so that it was cooked from the inside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You will find that it compresses easily and can be removed to create a hollow tube. Times, Sunday Times It's a strange, ungainly looking contraption: some plastic grippy arms attached to a long hollow tube in which you stick little canisters of argon gas. Times,Sunday Times Ice cores are collected by drilling into ancient ice with a hollow tube. Times, Sunday Times When first introduced, the microdialysis probe consisted of a hollow tube of dialysis membrane inserted transversely through the brain. The Scientist A smooth hollow tube passed between runners during relay events. Times, Sunday Times It's a bit of a hollow victory, however. The Sun Better that, surely, than a hollow victory the whole world now knows you don't deserve? The Sun In any case he thinks their referendum triumph may turn out to be a hollow victory. Times, Sunday Times But the overhaul, once achieved, proved to be a hollow victory. Times, Sunday Times As you know, it was a hollow victory. Times, Sunday Times For all its ambition, though, this story about hollowness itself ends up a little hollow. Times, Sunday Times Newly released patients, apart from looking a little hollow round the collar, tend to have neat hair, scraped into obedience by matron's rake. Times,Sunday Times But in this dire economic climate such promises may be sounding a little hollow. Times, Sunday Times We find a little hollow among the hills. Christianity Today So the 'national outrage' at her untimely exit rings a little hollow. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 空心的, 使凹陷 Japanese: 空洞の, へこませる |
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