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

• Mt. 6:7 And in praying do not babble empty words as the Gentiles do; for they suppose that in their multiplicity of words they will be heard.
  太六7你们祷告，不可唠唠叨叨，像外邦人一样；他们以为话说多了，就必蒙垂听。
• This thesis describes reduplications of verb, adjective, numeral and measure word of the Guiyang dialect, commonly concurrent with complement or empty words.
  本文描写贵阳方言的动词、容词、词和量词的重叠形式，一般带附加成分或嵌有衬字。
• Love is not empty words but potential actions.
  爱不是空洞的言语，乃是实际行动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is used by people who dislike empty words.
  它常用于不喜欢说空话的人。
• Oh, I had a few scruples. I assuaged my conscience with empty words.
  哦，我有过一点顾虑，但我用空洞的话语安慰我的良知。