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。
• We would be satisfied with any draft document, however vacuous.
  我们对任何草案都会感到满意，即使草案的内容非常空洞也无所谓。
• Rarely can such a vacuous concept have found its way into a debate claming to provide enlightenment.
  这样一个空洞的概念很难设法进入声称要提供启示的争论之中。
• While Enterprise Service Bus ( ESB) may seem like a vacuous marketing term designed only to get you to buy more software, the term actually has meaning for something useful.
  首先，让我们澄清这个模棱两可的概念&所谓的企业服务总线（ESB）。首先，它不是一个产品；其次，它不是一个虚幻的营销术语，不是专门用来诱导您购买更多软件的。
• 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。
• Labour's election slogan, a future fair for all, was vacuous.
  全民公平的未来&英国工党的这句竞选口号非常空洞。
• Here are half a dozen things Europeans could do to show that our multilateralism is more than a vacuous slogan.
  欧洲人可以做六件事，以显示我们的多边主义不只是一句空洞无物的口号。
• 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 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）
• 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。