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

• 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。
• This does not render the notion ofinformal logic vacuous, because no formal logic captures all of thenuance of natural language.
  这并不使这一概念的非形式逻辑空虚，因为没有正式的逻辑捕捉所有在细微的自然语言。
• 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。
• 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。
• Vacuous slogans are today found as often on the walls of public sector offices as in the business sector.
  如今，公共部门办公室墙上的空洞口号往往不比私人部门的少。
• Someone who is moving from an interesting but false claim to a true but vacuous claim.
  有人从一个有趣，但错误的宣称转移到一个真实但空虚的。
• Labour's election slogan, a future fair for all, was vacuous.
  全民公平的未来&英国工党的这句竞选口号非常空洞。
• Unfortunately, a vacuous slogan is underpinned by ineffectual proposals.
  遗憾的是，这个空洞的口号只得到无效提议的支撑。
• Lung AE ( 3 cases) appeared as irregular, peripherally scattered nodules, with small vacuous or cavities inside.
  肺泡状棘球蚴病3例，表现为以肺野外带居多，内部有“小空泡征”或“偏心空洞”的结节灶；
• Unlike religions, the great meme-complex of science includes methods for throwing out ideas that are vacuous, nonsensical or plain wrong.
  科学与宗教都是庞大的迷因复合体，但是科学与宗教不同，它有抛弃空洞、合理或错误点子的方法。