Vacuous
['vækjʊəs] or ['vækjuəs]
解释:
(a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
整理:怀亚特
解释:
adj. empty void: without intelligence unexpressive.—v.t. Vac′uāte to make empty.—ns. Vacuā′tion; Vac′uist one who thinks there are empty spaces in nature; Vacū′ity emptiness: space unoccupied: idleness listlessness; Vac′uōle a very small cavity in the tissue of organisms; Vac′uousness; Vac′ūum vacant or empty space: a space empty or devoid of all matter:—pl. Vac′ūa; Vac′ūum-brake a brake working on the principle of keeping up a vacuum in a continuous pipe or pipes extending under the train and in brake-cylinders connected to them under each vehicle the air being sucked out by ejectors or pumps on the locomotive; Vac′ūum-gauge a gauge for indicating to what extent a vacuum is produced; Vac′ūum-pan a vessel for boiling saccharine juices in a partial vacuum in sugar-making; Vac′ūum-tube a sealed glass tube in which a vacuum has been made employed to examine the effects of a discharge of electricity through air or gas rarefied or exhausted.
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例句:
- Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss Mary Sutherland. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which compelled our respect. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Edison finally decided to apply a preliminary metallic coating of infinitesimal thinness, and accomplished this object by a remarkable process known as the vacuous deposit. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The night seemed large and vacuous. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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