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 such accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page.
  没有这种问责制度，任何协议都只是一纸空文。
• Are they all empty words?
  真的都是些空话吗？
• Of course, if troops had no food, a political director would speak empty words.
  如果战士没有饭吃，政治指导员当然只能是说空话。
• 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。
• It is used by people who dislike empty words.
  它常用于不喜欢说空话的人。
• 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。
• These are just empty words.
  这些不过是些空话。
• But we shall use facts, not empty words, to dispel their anxieties and to answer the people who, on the contrary, are hoping we will go capitalist.
  我们不能拿空话而是要拿事实来解除他们的这个忧虑，并且回答那些希望我们变成资本主义的人。
• 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。
• 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。