英语单词 | emptiness |
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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.
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.
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]
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