一、詳細(xì)釋義:


adj.

空的


例句:

The room was bare and empty.

房間空蕩蕩的。


例句:

She crumbled an empty snail shell in her fingers.

她用手指捏碎了一個空蝸牛殼。


例句:

It is an empty plate.

這是一只空盤子。


空洞的,無意義的,無效的


例句:

He has fobbed us off with too many empty promises, and this time we've got to pin him down to one.

他總用空洞的諾言搪塞我們,這回我們非要叫他履行一次諾言。


例句:

His father threatened to throw him out, but he knew it was an empty threat.

他父親威脅要把他趕出去,但他知道那只不過是嚇嚇?biāo)T了。


空虛的,枯燥無味的,無力的


例句:

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

教育的目的是用能工巧匠接受新思想的頭腦去取代一個空虛的靈魂。


例句:

I feel so empty, my life just doesn't seem worth living any more.

我覺得非??仗摚钏坪醺静恢档美^續(xù)下去。


n.

空瓶,空容器,空的東西 [C]9


例句:

Empties are not taken back.

不退瓶子。


例句:

But you can start with clearing those empties.

不過你可以先收拾那些空瓶子。


v.

清空,把…倒空,(使)變空 [I,T]


例句:

I emptied the ashtray.

我把煙灰缸倒空了。


例句:

He emptied the contents out into the palm of his hand.

他把東西都倒在手心里。


流入,注入 [I]


例句:

The Washougal empties into the Columbia River near Portland.

沃舒格爾河在波特蘭附近注入哥倫比亞河。


例句:

The river empties into the sea.

這條河流入大海。


二、詞義辨析:


empty,vacant,hollow,blank,open

這些形容詞都有“空的”之意。 empty指空無一人或一物,或空洞無意義的。 vacant普通用詞,側(cè)重某物或某個位置沒有被占用。 hollow指物體中間是空的。 blank指上面沒有寫字、印刷或做記號的空白表面,或指上面留著準(zhǔn)備被填寫的空白處。 open指未被占有,從而可被別人得到的。


三、參考例句:


Empty wagons rattle loudest.

空車響聲大。


His room is empty.

他的房間是空的。


Please empty the glass.

請把玻璃杯清空。


Empty your inbox.

清空收件箱。


Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

純粹的時間,空虛的連綿。


It's an empty box.

這是一個空盒子。


Paul carried an empty box.

保羅拿著一個空盒子。


Andrew crushed his empty can.

安德魯把他的空罐子捏扁了。


The theater was half empty.

劇場空了一半。


Segregate full and empty cylinders.

隔開滿瓶和空瓶。