emp·ty
adjective/ˈempti/
/ˈempti/
(comparative emptier, superlative emptiest)
Idioms - with no people or things inside
空的 - an empty box/glass/bottle
空盒；空杯；空瓶 - empty hands (= not holding anything)
空手 - an empty plate (= with no food on it)
空盘子 - I noticed an empty space on the bookshelf.
我注意到书架上有一个空的地方。 - I couldn't see any empty seats (= with nobody sitting in them).
我一个空位也没看到。 - The theatre was half empty.
剧场空了一半。 - an empty house/room/bus
空着的房子／房间／公共汽车 - As it got later, the streets became empty.
随着时间的推移，街道变得空荡荡的。 - The house had been standing empty (= without people living in it) for some time.
这房子已经有一段时间没人住了。 - It's not good to drink alcohol on an empty stomach (= without having eaten something).
空腹饮酒不好。 - empty of something (formal) The room was empty of furniture.
房间里什么家具都没有。
Extra Examples- The box lay empty on the bed.
盒子放在床上，里面是空的。 - The city is letting useful housing stand empty.
这个城市正任由可使用的住房闲置。 - The house felt curiously empty without the children.
家里没有了孩子显得空荡荡的，让人不习惯。 - The house had been left empty for several weeks.
房子已经空了好几周。 - The reservoirs could end up empty if this dry weather continues.
如果这种干燥天气继续下去，水库最终可能干涸。 - There was a vast expanse of totally empty sky to look at.
可以看到万里晴空。 - There were a few chairs, but the room was otherwise empty.
房间里有几把椅子，但除此之外空空荡荡的。 - a half-empty box of chocolates
半空的一盒巧克力 - The streets were empty of people.
街上没有人。 - For the first time in years, the town square was empty of pigeons.
多年来第一次，城镇广场上没有鸽子。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- feel
- …
- completely
- entirely
- quite
- …
- of
- an empty box/glass/bottle
- [usually before noun] (of something that somebody says or does) with no meaning; not meaning what is said
空洞的；说话不算数的；无诚意的 - empty words
空话 - an empty promise
兑现不了的承诺 - Voters will see through the empty rhetoric.
选民会看穿空洞的言辞。 - an empty gesture aimed at pleasing the crowds
旨在取悦观众的装腔作势
- empty words
- (of a person, or a person’s life) unhappy because life does not seem to have a purpose, usually after something sad has happened
空虚的；无意义的；无目的的 - Three months after his death, she still felt empty.
他死后三个月她仍然感到心里空落落的。 - My life seems empty without you.
没有你，我的生活似乎就没有了意义。 - We all feel very empty now she's gone.
她走了，我们都觉得心里空荡荡的。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- feel
- …
- completely
- entirely
- quite
- …
- of
- Three months after his death, she still felt empty.
- empty of something without a quality that you would expect to be there
没有；缺乏；无 - words that were empty of meaning
无意义的话
- words that were empty of meaning
Word OriginOld English ǣmtig, ǣmetig ‘at leisure, empty’, from ǣmetta ‘leisure’, perhaps from ā ‘no, not’ + mōt ‘meeting’ (see moot).
Idioms
the glass is half-empty
- used to refer to the attitude of somebody who always looks at the bad things in a situation rather than the good ones
用于指在某种情况下总是看到坏事而不是好事的人的态度 - For me the glass is half-empty.
对我来说，杯子是半空的。 - If you start to look at things with a glass half-empty mentality, your problems soon pile up.
如果你开始以半空的心态看待事物，你的问题很快就会堆积起来。
- For me the glass is half-empty.