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Emptiness I Feeling Fact State N Uncount 不可数名词 英

英语单词 emptiness
英美音标 英 ['emptinəs] 美 ['emptinəs]
中文释义 n.空虚;空旷;空地
英语例句 (1) I feel I am in emptiness.
(2) It is a world of emptiness.
(3) Man had overcome the emptiness of this land.
中文例句 (1) 我觉得我很空虚。
(2) 那是一个空虚的世界。
(3) 人已经驱走了这片土地的空旷。
vocabulary简明 Has your girlfriend left you? Your boss fired you and your dog run away from home? Then you're probably feeling a state of emptiness, a condition of meaninglessness or futility. Cheer up, you could try writing a country music song.
vocabulary扩展 Although the emotional sense of emptiness is the most common, it can also mean a literal state of physical emptiness -— as in "the emptiness of space." Either way, emptiness might seem like a pretty bad thing, but consider the Bhuddist understanding of the term, for whom emptiness is in fact the ultimate virtue: “Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities,” said the famous Japanese teacher, D. T. Suzuki.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]空虚 A feeling of emptiness is an unhappy or frightening feeling that nothing is worthwhile, especially when you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting.
  • The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression.

    之后对生活产生的影响可能会是空虚感和沮丧感。

2
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]空寂;空旷 The emptiness of a place is the fact that there is nothing in it.
  • ...the emptiness of the desert.

    沙漠的空旷

3
[N-SING 单数名词]空旷之处;空地 An emptiness is a very large area of land, sea, or space that has nothing in it.
  [LITERARY 文]
  • I drove for a while across this fearsome emptiness.

    我开车开了好一阵穿过这片可怕的空旷之地。

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