Emptiness
['em(p)tɪnɪs] or ['ɛmptɪnəs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
(n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
(n.) Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
狄伦編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Vacuity, vacuum, void space.[2]. Destitution, lack of supplies, want of furniture.[3]. Unsatisfactoriness, vanity, hollowness.
哈利整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The scorn of the public should be turned upon the emptiness of political thought, upon the fact that those men seem without even a conception of the nation's needs. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There was something so strange and dreadful in the loneliness and emptiness of the house, that I was glad, on my side, to have a companion near me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- SUNDAY EVENING As the day wore on, the life-blood seemed to ebb away from Ursula, and within the emptiness a heavy despair gathered. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The late afternoon sun that still came over the brown shoulder of the mountain showed the bridge dark against the steep emptiness of the gorge. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- There was no refuge now from spiritual emptiness and discontent, and Dorothea had to bear her bad mood, as she would have borne a headache. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Space is, for the most part, emptiness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Well, really, now I think we must be moving, said Humphrey, observing the emptiness of the vessel. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Celia, whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was almost full again, after its period of emptiness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She peeped in as she passed, and divined from the emptiness of his table, and the general appearance of things, that he was already gone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Cleverly do they extract the sweet juices of flowers to fill the emptiness of many-celled combs. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- So there was nothing to do but to bear the stress of his own emptiness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the fixed stars. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
阿伦編輯