| 单词 | empty |
| 释义 | emp·ty I. 1. a. < an empty box > especially < a cold empty stove > < an empty pantry > < an empty purse > < an empty chair > < shows the empty cross and the distant rising sun — T.A.Stafford > b. < an empty house > < an empty lot > < empty factory space > c. < an empty theater > < along the road that had been so quiet and empty the night before, but was now crowded with people — Archibald Marshall > : uninhabited < colonize empty lands where the Red Indian nomad would be the only person aggrieved — G.M.Trevelyan > < most of the northeast coast is empty except for the villages — P.E.James > : unfrequented < seemed less disagreeable when one could walk in quiet, empty places after dark — W.B.Yeats > < the muddy waters are empty, except for an occasional small ship such as the one taking me away — H.W.Carter > d. of a female domestic animal < an empty heifer > e. logic, of a class 2. < an empty truck > < an empty mail pouch > : lacking cargo < an empty freighter > < an empty camel train > 3. a. < an empty dream > < empty lip service > b. < an empty pleasure > < conformation of appointments by the senate is anything but an empty form — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < empty bragging and all the playacting that springs from insincerity — H.M.Parshley > < an empty display of erudition — Benjamin Farrington > < unless our party is reunited … the nomination for presidency will be purely an empty honor — F.D.Roosevelt > < the idle or empty use of God's name — Interpreter's Bible > c. < empty threats > d. < a speech made up of empty and platitudinous ideas > < if all that cannot be understood or satisfactorily explained is to be dismissed as impossible or unreal, life will be an empty thing indeed — W.F.Hambly > e. < where a member of the aristocracy may be as husky of body and as empty of mind as the most menial of the working caste — W.C.Allee > f. < an empty face > 4. < after missing lunch the children were very empty by suppertime > 5. a. < she wakened in the morning with a slight feeling of anticipation, a faint stirring of hope, instead of the horror and dread of another empty day — Dorothy Witton > < summer in the city was an empty season — Nancy Cardozo > : not occupied with any purposeful activity : idle < to fill the empty hours, her daughter asked her to embroider a worsted picture — Current Biography > < she enjoys turning her empty leisure into a bountiful offering — H.M.Parshley > b. < a certain amount of empty mileage is unnecessarily run — British Transport Review > c. < it was tedious work and involved following a lot of empty leads — Best True Fact Detective > 6. a. < the empty silence of the night > < a cold and empty wasteland > < blank and empty fields — Pearl Buck > b. < it had been an acrid empty home with everyone growing alien to one another — Norman Mailer > 7. < empty of all purpose or meaning > < the streets are empty of automobiles — Jean Stafford > < did the roads look peculiarly empty of traffic — Meridel LeSueur > < the air was never empty of their sweet, sad calling — Mary Webb > < empty of meaning > 8. a. < the weeks after his wife's death were empty and desolate > : experiencing a marked and unsatisfied emotional need < one evening you are lonely and empty because the moon is shining and there is a strange beauty over the land — Charlton Laird > b. < his outburst had left him completely empty, like a shaken sack — Liam O'Flaherty > Synonyms: < an empty basket > < an empty room from which the furniture had been moved > < the dark and empty auditorium of a theater in the morning when only one or two cleaners are moving about — Alan Moorehead > Figuratively, empty indicates lack of content or significance < when words came they did not break the silence. The wall remained. The words that came were empty, meaningless words — Sherwood Anderson > < the unthinking mind is not necessarily dull, rude, or impervious; it is probably simply empty — C.W.Eliot > vacant describes what is without an occupant, incumbent, tenant, inmate, or person or thing appropriately settled or fixed within < a vacant room ready for a new tenant > < the nook among the brambles where his van had been standing was as vacant as ever the next morning — Thomas Hardy > < a vacant throne > < a vacant professorship > Figuratively, vacant may indicate lack of an agency or attribute considered as a usual occupant < her partner, the poor snail, was a vacant creature, scarcely more than half-witted — and the hard work, of course, was put off on her — Willa Cather > < his vacant eye, his lack of interest in what went on about him, and his strange gestures and mutterings were symptoms of a failing mind — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > blank describes what is free from writing or marking < a blank book > < a blank page > In more figurative uses it may indicate lack of signs of expression, comprehension, or meaning < she had not a word to say, and in blank astonishment she beheld the carriage drive off — William Black > < their utterances are more or less seriously taken because the public, equally ignorant, is just as blank and undiscriminating — C.H.Grandgent > void intensifies the notions of empty < void barren desert > < a large smooth shining face, void of a sign of mustache or whiskers — Henry James †1916 > < void of human interest or poetic quality, as yet unstirred by a breath of life — H.O.Taylor > vacuous may suggest the emptiness of a vacuum; in figurative applications to persons and their notions, it is a synonym of inane < the substances are dried in a bell jar or desiccator over concentrated sulfuric acid. The drying takes place more rapidly if the containing vessel is rendered vacuous — J.F.Thorpe & Martha A. Whiteley > < to see whether he could detect any surprise or suspicion. There was nothing to be read in the vacuous face, blank as a school notice-board out of term — Graham Greene > Synonym: see in addition vain. II. transitive verb 1. a. < empty a box > < empty a truck > < empty a house > < empty a city > b. < empty a phrase of all meaning > < emptied himself of all power to control > < the Christ who emptied Himself of His glory and accepted humiliation and suffering — R.M.French > < his eyes emptied themselves of light and intelligence — R.H.Newman > < a style emptied of human content — Anthony Blunt > < the curriculum can be emptied of all the studies and the disciplines which relate to faith and to morals — Walter Lippmann > c. < the stream empties itself into the river > < the water pipe emptied itself into the rain barrel with a gurgling sound > d. < he leaped to his feet and emptied his gun through the broken window — S.H.Holbrook > 2. < empty the grain from a sack > < empty the money from a purse > < empty the furniture from a house > < empty the cattle from a stable > 3. < empty grain into a bin > < empty his armful of packages onto the table > < empty the sacks from the truck onto the porch > < no waste, garbage, or refuse may be emptied on highways — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > intransitive verb 1. < the theater emptied rapidly after the show ended > 2. < the river empties into the ocean > 3. III. < an engine pulling five full boxcars, one coal car, and several empties > < always drunk two quarts of wine a day on the job, tossing his empties into the basement — Clifford Aucoin > |
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