devoid

英 [dɪˈvɔɪd]

美 [dɪˈvɔɪd]

adj.  完全没有; 缺乏

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Collins.1 / BNC.9605 / COCA.9749

牛津词典

adj.

• 完全没有；缺乏
  completely lacking in sth
  1. The letter was devoid of warmth and feeling.
     这封信既无热情又无感情。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 毫无…的;没有…的
  If you say that someone or something isdevoid ofa quality or thing, you are emphasizing that they have none of it.
  1. I have never looked on a face that was so devoid of feeling...
     我从来没有见过一张如此面无表情的脸。
  2. The skies are virtually devoid of birdlife.
     天空中几乎没有任何鸟的踪迹。

英英释义

adj

• completely wanting or lacking
  1. writing barren of insight
  2. young recruits destitute of experience
  3. innocent of literary merit
  4. the sentence was devoid of meaning
  Synonym:barrendestitutefreeinnocent

双语例句

• It is a situation, in sum, devoid of logic.
  总之，该情况毫无逻辑。
• They are utterly devoid of conscience, they even humiliated these defenseless civilians.
  欺辱这些手无寸铁的平民，这些人真是丧尽天良。
• Maldek was a utopia that was devoid of all struggle.
  马尔戴克是一个乌托邦，那里没有所有的奋斗。
• Not wholly devoid of an idea that he might behold an evil spirit.
  并非完全没有料到他可能又要看到一个邪魔了。
• I have never looked on a face that was so devoid of feeling
  我从来没有见过一张如此面无表情的脸。
• However this kind is approbated is to build what go up in qualitative analysis mostly, devoid conviction.
  然而这种认可大多都是建立在定性的分析上的，缺乏说服力。
• The skies are virtually devoid of birdlife.
  天空中几乎没有任何鸟的踪迹。
• Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
  赫胥黎经典的预言小说描绘了未来主义乌托邦中社会化的恐怖和对个人自由的剥夺。
• This shows that we are not devoid of talented scientists.
  这就说明，我们并不是没有人。
• This was a culture devoid of self-criticism and self-analysis, hindering the prevention of impending economic catastrophe.
  这是一种缺乏自我批评和自我分析的文化，给防范日益迫近的经济灾难制造了障碍。