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

• 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。
• The sense of space and emptiness is overwhelming.
  巨大的空虚感汹涌袭来。
• He looked around his dark, cluttered office and was engulfed by a feeling of emptiness.
  他环顾自己昏暗杂乱的办公室，陷入一阵空虚之中。
• So what is this emptiness, this loneliness?
  所以，这种空虚，这种孤独是什么？
• Why all this emptiness despite our wealth?
  为什么财富带来了空虚？
• My eager hands press emptiness to my heart and it bruises my breast.
  我渴望的双手把空虚紧压在我心上，压碎了我的胸膛。
• You are left with this sort of numb emptiness.
  你只剩下这种麻木的空虚感了。
• And I think it's because spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
  我认为这是因为精神上的空虚，这是整个地球的通病。
• 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。
• Do not wait is old, recalls when own life in memory such paleness and emptiness!
  不要等老的时候，回忆自己的人生时记忆中那样的苍白和空荡！