empty words

英 [ˈempti wɜːdz]

美 [ˈempti wɜːrdz]

网络  虚词; 词穷; 词汇空缺; 功能词也称虚词; 空洞的言词

英英释义

noun

• loud and confused and empty talk
  1. mere rhetoric
  Synonym:palaverhot airempty talkrhetoric

双语例句

• Without judicial review, statutory limits would be naught but empty words.
  没有司法审查，法定权限将只是一句空话。
• Reliability, responsibility and innovation are not just empty words.
  可靠，可信与创新并不是仅仅几句空话而已。
• Better do more daily, trivial, ordinary and practical work that is needed by the people, than say a thousand empty words that may be sweet to the ear.
  多做一些人们需要的、日常细小的、平凡而又实际的工作，这胜过说一千句漂亮动听的话。
• Maverick soon began to wonder why people in government agencies spent so much time writing reports that were long and dull and full of empty words.
  马弗里克很快就开始奇怪，政府机关人士为什么要花那么多的时间撰写冗长乏味，空话连篇的报告。
• Mt. 6:7 And in praying do not babble empty words as the Gentiles do; for they suppose that in their multiplicity of words they will be heard.
  太六7你们祷告，不可唠唠叨叨，像外邦人一样；他们以为话说多了，就必蒙垂听。
• This thesis describes reduplications of verb, adjective, numeral and measure word of the Guiyang dialect, commonly concurrent with complement or empty words.
  本文描写贵阳方言的动词、容词、词和量词的重叠形式，一般带附加成分或嵌有衬字。
• Employees know that bosses are lying weasels and wisely ignore such empty words.
  员工们知道，老板们都是骗人的黄鼠狼，因此，他们会明智地忘记这些空洞的许诺。
• These are just empty words.
  这些不过是些空话。
• Empty words without deeds will not deceive the people for long.
  如无事实，则空话是不能长久骗人的。
• Obama is indeed eloquent, but diplomacy can not just empty words.
  奥巴马的确能言善辩，但外交上不能光说空话。