vacuous

英 [ˈvækjuəs]

美 [ˈvækjuəs]

adj.  空洞的; 空洞无物的

GRE

BNC.20895 / COCA.25788

牛津词典

adj.

• 空洞的；空洞无物的
  showing no sign of intelligence or sensitive feelings
  1. a vacuous expression
     茫然的表情

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 思想贫乏的;空洞的;无知的
  If you describe a person or their comments asvacuous, you are critical of them because they lack intelligent thought or ideas.
  1. Male models are not always so vacuous as they are made out to be.
     男模特儿并不总像人们说的那样愚蠢。
  2. ...the usual vacuous comments by some faceless commentator.
     一些千人一面的评论员给出的毫无意义的寻常意见

英英释义

adj

• void of expression
  1. a blank stare
  Synonym:blank
• devoid of matter
  1. a vacuous space
• devoid of significance or point
  1. empty promises
  2. a hollow victory
  3. vacuous comments
  Synonym:emptyhollow
• devoid of intelligence
  Synonym:asininefatuousinanemindless

双语例句

• Human being lost the will and motive to transcendence. So, the life becomes chaos, out-of-order, perplexed, vacuous and hopeless.
  人失去了超越的意向与动力，生活陷入混乱、无序、空虚、迷惘甚至绝望之中。
• The second was that he repeated a vacuous mantra about a strong dollar being in America's interests, even as everyone knew policymakers quietly welcomed its slide.
  第二，虽然财政部长夸夸其谈，大唱赞歌，说什么美元的优势符合美国人民的利益，可是谁都知道那些决策者暗地想美元下滑。
• As a separate engineering division with its own racing cars and a race series on the way, there's no way Abarth was going to just give this car a vacuous makeover.
  作为一个单独的工程司有自己的赛车和赛事的道路上，就没有办法去阿巴特是只给这个赛车空虚改造。
• The English Patient was absolutely faithful to a morally vacuous book that almost worships adultery, suicide, and mercy-killing but reviewers commented on the chemistry between the lovers in the film.
  《英国病人》非常忠于道德空虚的原著，那本书里一味地崇尚不伦，自杀以及安乐死，但是影评人却称片中的情侣关系融洽。
• When you feel vacuous and unhappy, you can do some labour, such as cleaning the house, tables and windows.
  感到空虚不快乐的时候你可以劳动一下，比如打扫房子，抹抹桌子，窗子啥的；
• Here are half a dozen things Europeans could do to show that our multilateralism is more than a vacuous slogan.
  欧洲人可以做六件事，以显示我们的多边主义不只是一句空洞无物的口号。
• Guo's fans say he's the voice of a new material-minded generation, but many critics have savaged Tiny Times as a vacuous homage to consumerism that sets a bad example for Chinese youth.
  郭敬明的粉丝称他代表了专注于物质的新生代，但许多评论家却攻击说《小时代》是对消费至上主义的空虚崇拜，为中国的年轻人树立了负面榜样。
• We would be satisfied with any draft document, however vacuous.
  我们对任何草案都会感到满意，即使草案的内容非常空洞也无所谓。
• The narrow, swinelike eyes were open, no more vacuous in death than they had been in life ( Nicholas Proffitt)
  这狭长的猪似的眼睛睁着，与其说他们仍活着不如说是死去般的空洞无物（尼古拉斯普罗菲特）
• The meeting as a whole could not bring itself to endorse this vacuous proclamation. It took note of it.
  大会作为一个整体，实在做不到对这个空洞的宣言表示支持，而只能表示注意到了这个宣言。