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empty

英 ['em(p)tɪ] 美[ˈɛmptɪ]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

adj. 空的；无意义的；无知的；徒劳的
vt. 使失去；使…成为空的
vi. 成为空的；流空
n. 空车；空的东西

考试真题

So why not limit the density of food outlets, particularly ones that sell food rich in empty calories?

Hotel owners found themselves with a huge number of empty rooms even as a lot of unnecessary new hotels were ready to open

The next block was almost empty.

I showed him that my hands were empty.

Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of China's Antarctic operations since the 1980s.

But a university degree unaccompanied by a gain in knowledge or skills is an empty achievement indeed.

Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing more than intervals of freedom from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once.

Assuming all goes well, the airport should open in October 2020, but the still empty airport stands as the biggest embarrassment to Germany's reputation for efficiency and a continuing drain on city and state resources.

He said although more fishing was taking place nearer penguin colonies it was often happening later in the season when these colonies were empty.

More than seven years after it was originally supposed to open, it still stands empty.

But I don't like the idea of paying three months for an empty apartment, either.

Each empty can of its food weighs 40g.

Feeling good, I emptied my purse change into the hands of a homeless man and helped a struggling woman reverse park.

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

In that case, eat before the flight, or an empty stomach will prevent you from sleeping.

Material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a partly written book.

Otherwise, the recreation of traditions would be artificial and empty, he said.

Silences may be thoughtful, or they may be empty when a person has nothing to say.

Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and empty.

The snack bar isn't usually so empty.

They take their driverless car to an appointment and set the empty vehicle to circle the building to avoid paying for parking.

Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

mies' sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.