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

• 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；
• 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。
• However, he was ill soon after he was retired because he didn't know what he should do and he was very vacuous, worried everyday.
  然而，他退休后不久就病了，因为他每天不知道该做什么，而且感觉很空虚、焦虑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The effects of irradiation dosage, irradiation temperature, different kinds of packing container, vacuous capacity of the container, technology of making wine and storage time on acceleration of yellow rice wine mellowness were studied by sensory evaluation and chemical composition analysis.
  以黄酒感官品评和化学成分为指标，研究~（60）Coγ射线辐照剂量、辐照温度、包装容器、容器的空隙度、酿造工艺、贮藏时间对黄酒加速陈化效果的影响。
• In return, he offered cuts in industrial tariffs that were, if anything, even more vacuous.
  作为回报，他就工业关税减免，如果有区别，那就是更加空洞。
• 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。