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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Analysis and Study on Navigation Accuracy of Laser Gyro SINS System of Vacuous Basis
  空基激光陀螺捷联惯导系统导航精度的分析与研究
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。