emptiness

英 [ˈemptinəs]

美 [ˈemptinəs]

n.  空虚; 空无; 空旷; 空地

复数：emptinesses　

Collins.1 / BNC.11876 / COCA.9389

牛津词典

noun

• 空虚
  a feeling of being sad because nothing seems to have any value
  1. There was an aching emptiness in her heart.
     她的内心有一种隐隐作痛的空虚感。
• 空无；空旷
  the fact that there is nothing or nobody in a place
  1. The silence and emptiness of the house did not scare her.
     房子的空寂并未使她感到害怕。
• 空地
  a place that is empty
  1. He stared out at the vast emptiness that was the sea.
     他放眼向辽阔无际的海洋望去。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 空虚
  A feeling ofemptinessis an unhappy or frightening feeling that nothing is worthwhile, especially when you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting.
  1. The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression.
     之后对生活产生的影响可能会是空虚感和沮丧感。
• N-UNCOUNT 空寂;空旷
  Theemptinessof a place is the fact that there is nothing in it.
  1. ...the emptiness of the desert.
     沙漠的空旷
• N-SING 空旷之处；空地
  Anemptinessis a very large area of land, sea, or space that has nothing in it.
  1. I drove for a while across this fearsome emptiness.
     我开车开了好一阵穿过这片可怕的空旷之地。

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being valueless or futile
  1. he rejected the vanities of the world
  Synonym:vanity
• an empty area or space
  1. the huge desert voids
  2. the emptiness of outer space
  3. without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
  Synonym:voidvacancyvacuum
• having an empty stomach
• the state of containing nothing

双语例句

• So out of measurement and comparison comes the enormous cavity of emptiness and nothingness.
  那么从衡量和比较，就产生了空虚和一无是处的巨大空洞。
• I drove for a while across this fearsome emptiness.
  我开车开了好一阵穿过这片可怕的空旷之地。
• The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression.
  之后对生活产生的影响可能会是空虚感和沮丧感。
• Lonely sail, distant shadow,| vanish in blue emptiness;| all I see is the great river| flowing to the far horizon.
  孤帆远影碧空尽，唯见长江天际流。（李白《黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵》）
• So what is this emptiness, this loneliness?
  所以，这种空虚，这种孤独是什么？
• Without you, life just an ever ending emptiness.
  没有你，生命只是一个空虚的结局！
• "I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the word to the work.
  “言语”对“工作”说：“我羞愧于我的空虚”。
• They put being alone in the same category as loneliness and emptiness.
  他们把独自一人与孤独和空虚归作一类。
• This explains that all things have no self nature but emptiness, and all events have its inevitable cause.
  这解释所有东西没有自性，除了空性；并且所有事件有它不可必免的缘起。
• And with his Irishman's sense of the tragic, she also knew he felt something about such emptiness.
  她也知道，凭他的爱尔兰人对悲剧和敏感性，他已感觉出一些这种空虚。