| 词汇 | empty |
| 释义 | empty adjective uk /ˈemp.ti/ us /ˈemp.ti/ emptyadjective (NOTHING IN)A2 not containing any things or people: 空的;无人的 an empty house/street空房／空无一人的街道 Shall I take the empty bottles for recycling?我把这些空瓶子拿去回收吧？ The train was empty (= there were no passengers) by the time it reached London.火车到达伦敦的时候，车内已经没有乘客了。 Put the empty box in the rubbish bin.把空盒子放在垃圾桶里。 The room was empty except for a wardrobe standing in one corner.房间里除了墙角有个衣柜外，别无他物。 Could you put that crate of empty bottles outside the back door, please? I pulled into the empty parking space.我把车开进了空车位。 When I reached the supermarket checkout, I found to my horror that my purse was completely empty. Empty bare barrenly barrenness blank clear view cleared dead emptily emptiness flat forlorn hollow lifeless low-traffic nothingness uninhabited unobstructed unoccupied untenanted vacant emptyadjective (NOT SINCERE)C1[ usually before noun ] not sincere or without any real meaning: 无诚意的;空洞的;无意义的 empty rhetoricShe dismessed his apology as empty rhetoric empty threatToo many empty threats and your child will soon learn to ignore you. empty promiseThey're just empty promises.这些许诺只不过是些空头支票。 Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial forced forcedly fustian glib glibly piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality emptyadjective (WITHOUT PURPOSE)without purpose or interest: 空虚的；无目标的，无意义的；百无聊赖的 He says his life has been completely empty since his wife died.他说自从妻子去世后他的生活就完全没有了意义。 I felt empty, like a part of me had died.我感到空虚，就像自己的一部分已经死去。 having no clear plan or purpose aimlessHe was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position. directionlessThe party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern. purposelessThe job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless. adriftHis son has just been utterly adrift since leaving university. emptyAfter losing him, I just feel empty inside. Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely futility negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory ornamental unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability Related wordemptily Idiomon an empty stomach empty verb uk /ˈemp.ti/ us /ˈemp.ti/ [ T ] to remove everything from inside something: 倒空，腾空；倾倒 I emptied the closet and put my belongings into the black overnight case.我把壁橱腾空，把我的东西放进那个外出过夜用的黑色旅行袋里。 empty (out)Would you mind emptying (out) your pockets?你把衣兜掏空好不好？ empty something into somethingEmpty the soup into a saucepan and simmer gently for ten minutes.把汤都倒进煮锅中，慢火煨10分钟。 She quickly emptied her glass (= drank its contents) and ordered another drink.她一饮而尽，然后又叫了一杯。 [ I ] to become empty: 变空 The place emptied pretty quickly when the fight started.战斗爆发后，这个地方很快就没人了。 Emptying clear drain evacuate evacuation gut hollow hollow something out land let let someone/something out turn turn out unbox unload unpack vacate Phrasal verbempty into something empty noun uk /ˈemp.ti/ us /ˈemp.ti/ [ Cusually plural ] an empty bottle or other container, especially one that contained drink: 空瓶子（等容器） Don't forget to recycle the empties.不要忘了回收空瓶子。 Containers for liquids and gases aerosol amphora bottle bucket bulk tank churn growler hip flask hot-water bottle hottie howler oxygen tank siphon sprayer squeeze bottle stoup stubby Thermos tin can tinnie Idiomrunning on empty empty | American Dictionaryempty adjective us/ˈemp·ti/ having nothing inside: He set the empty glass down. If a place is empty, no one is using it or is present: It was past midnight, and the streets were empty. Empty also means without any meaning or purpose: We need jobs, not empty promises. Idiomon an empty stomach empty noun[ Cusually pl ] us/ˈemp·ti/ a container with nothing in it, esp. one whose contents have been used: Bring the empties to the recycling center. empty verb[ I/T ] us/ˈemp·ti/ to take out everything from inside something, or to lose what is inside so that nothing is left: [ T ]She emptied her husband’s mug in the sink. [ I ]Once the movie ended, the theater emptied quickly. [ I ]The Tombigbee River empties into Mobile Bay (= its water flows there). Examples of emptyempty Taken together, the low wages, insecure employment, and absence of protection and promotion emptied the concept of labor history of any cumulative content. After the final visual count, the cages were carefully emptied with a blower-vac to obtain near-total numbers of arthropods (fig. 2). The other breast was then emptied by a mechanical pump. Once children made a selection, the experimenter recorded their response, emptied the bucket, and allowed children to play with both objects for approximately 30 seconds. Traps were either emptied where they were hanging, or sealed with tape and lowered to the ground. Many others also accused the manuals of emptying letters of sentiment, originality, personality, even thought. Each of the two pools empties at twice the rate, so the overall transit time is unchanged. With the touch gone, the wine glass was emptied, and ready for another temporal refill. As there was no log-sheet kept for pool maintenance, it remained unclear if the whirlpool was emptied and the water disinfected daily. Again the implicit store is emptied so as not to interfere with the caller. Until the mid-nineteenth century, such refuse was generally collected in cesspools (enclosed pits dug into the ground) which were periodically emptied by manual labor. The septic tank was emptied approximately twice a year. They tended to drift as the smoke tank emptied. Not until 1905 did the number of ashpails emptied in the year correspond to weekly emptying. When the eggs hatched, they emptied the new fish into the creek. See all examples of empty These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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