emptier

英 [ˈɛmptɪə]

美 [ˈɛmptiər]

adj.  空的; 空洞的; 说话不算数的; 无诚意的; 空虚的; 无意义的; 无目的的
empty的比较级

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 空的
  Anemptyplace, vehicle, or container is one that has no people or things in it.
  1. The room was bare and empty.
     房间空荡荡的。
  2. ...empty cans of lager...
     空的窖藏啤酒罐
  3. The roads were nearly empty of traffic.
     马路上几乎没有车。
• ADJ (威胁、关系等)空洞的，无意义的，无效的
  Anemptygesture, threat, or relationship has no real value or meaning.
  1. His father threatened to throw him out, but he knew it was an empty threat.
     他父亲威胁要把他赶出去，但他知道那只不过是吓吓他罢了。
  2. ...to ensure the event is not perceived as an empty gesture.
     确保这一活动不被看作只是一种空洞的姿态
• ADJ-GRADED (生活或某段时间)空虚的，枯燥无味的
  If you describe a person's life or a period of time asempty, you mean that nothing interesting or valuable happens in it.
  1. My life was very hectic but empty before I met him.
     在遇到他之前，我的生活非常繁忙却很空虚。
• ADJ-GRADED （感觉）空虚的，无力的
  If youfeel empty, you feel unhappy and have no energy, usually because you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting.
  1. I felt empty and hollow; defeated...
     我感觉空虚无聊，充满挫败感。
  2. I feel so empty, my life just doesn't seem worth living any more.
     我觉得非常空虚，生活似乎根本不值得继续下去。
• VERB 清空;把…倒空
  If youemptya container, oremptysomething out of it, you remove its contents, especially by tipping it up.
  1. I emptied the ashtray...
     我把烟灰缸倒空了。
  2. Empty the noodles and liquid into a serving bowl...
     把汤面倒进上菜用的碗中。
  3. He emptied the contents out into the palm of his hand.
     他把东西都倒在手心里。
• V-ERG （使）（房间、场地等）变空;清空
  If someoneemptiesa room or place, or if itempties, everyone that is in it goes away.
  1. The stadium emptied at the end of the first day of athletics.
     首日比赛结束后，体育场空无一人。
  2. ...a woman who could empty a pub full of drunks just by lifting one fist.
     只要举起一只拳头就能把一酒吧的醉鬼全部赶跑的女人
• VERB （河流或运河）流入，注入
  A river or canal thatempties intoa lake, river, or sea flows into it.
  1. The Washougal empties into the Columbia River near Portland.
     沃舒格尔河在波特兰附近注入哥伦比亚河。
• 空瓶；空容器
  Emptiesare bottles or containers which no longer have anything in them.

双语例句

• "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings-always darker, emptier and simpler." Friedrich Nietzsche.
  思想是我们感觉的影子&总是更暗些，更空虚些，更简单些。
• It is a world seen through the eyes of a child: the shadows are blacker, the fog denser, the house higher, the midnight streets emptier and more terrifying than in reality.
  在这世界里，阴影更黑，雾气更浓房屋更高，深夜的街道显得比实际上更空旷更恐怖。
• Cloudy arrogant makes the heat really, disliked that recovers Sheng Eryin emptier, Yin deficient and is dry and hot is between hotly the cause and effect relationship relations.
  阴愈傲而做热愈甚，嫌热愈盛而阴愈虚，阴虚与燥热之间是互为因果关系的。
• Ms. Blake said she had seen no obvious signs of a slowdown around town, like emptier stores and restaurants.
  布莱克表示，她在城市各处没有观察到发展放缓的明显迹象，如店铺或餐馆变得冷清。
• It may also confirm the existence of the "axis of evil"-a weird alignment of hot and cold spots in the emptier regions of space.
  其可能也证实一种“邪恶轴心”存在，即在空间的该空虚区域中有一个热点和冷点的怪异线路。
• But we knew we had to go home to an emptier house, having lost two once-loved family members, a scene of gruesome devastation.
  但我们知道，我们不得不回家，面对一栋比以前更空旷的房子。因为失去了曾经喜爱的两个家庭成员，那里满目疮痍，有些阴森。
• We shop at home, we surf the Web, but at the same time we feel emptier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history.
  我们在家中购物，在网络阅览，但同时我们也感到更加空虚与孤独，比人类历史上任何时间都孤独。
• Gulley emptier/ sewage equipment He cleared out the drain.
  清沟机/下水道设备他清除了水沟中的污物。
• The further you get into siberia, the emptier the stores get.
  越往西伯利亚走，店铺里的东西就越少。