vacuity

英 [vəˈkjuːəti]

美 [vəˈkjuːəti]

n.  空虚; 茫然; 缺乏思考

BNC.40554 / COCA.38787

牛津词典

noun

• 空虚；茫然；缺乏思考
  lack of serious thought or purpose

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT (思想的)贫乏,空洞,空虚
  If you refer to thevacuityof something or someone, you are critical of them because they lack intelligent thought or ideas.
  1. His vacuity was a handicap in these debates.
     在这些辩论中，思想贫乏是他的一个弱点。
  2. ...a campaign notable for its intellectual vacuity and personal nastiness.
     以思想空洞和人身攻击闻名的竞选活动

英英释义

noun

• total lack of meaning or ideas
  Synonym:inanitysenselessnessmindlessnesspointlessness
• a region that is devoid of matter
  Synonym:vacuum
• the absence of matter
  Synonym:vacuum

双语例句

• People with no belief, when his hands holding prosperous, mood will become vacuity.
  没有信仰的人，当他手中握住繁华，心情就会变得荒芜。
• But I don't would like to believe love is dissipation when vacuity and a game when blankness;
  但我不愿意相信爱情仅是无聊时的消遣、空虚时的游戏；
• Bertha thought it disconcerted him by rendering evident even to himself the vacuity of his mind.
  伯莎认为这对他不利，这种情况甚至清楚地向他自己证明了他心灵的空虚。
• Turned one way to the light it is about callowness and over-optimism; about a puppy-dog innocence verging on vacuity, prey to vulgarity and vacuum-packed with egotism.
  从一个角度讲，它是缺乏经验和过于乐观；是近乎愚蠢的小狗般的无知，是充满自高自大的粗鲁和空虚行为的猎物。
• On cue, militant atheists trotted out their own hoary lines: vacuity of the god of the gaps, meaninglessness of the questions about the meaning of it all, and so on.
  恰好在这时候，激进的无神论者提出了他们的古训：知识上的空白让人们空虚地迷恋上帝，对宇宙万物意义的追问其实毫无意义，等等。
• The space in statuary, which shows the spirit of humanism, has something to do with substance and vacuity, the contrast as well as unity between mankind and nature.
  雕塑空间关系到实体和虚空、人与自然的对立统一，体现了人本主义的精神。
• For that vacuity, this study tries to make an investigation on it.
  故此，本研究尝试针对这一领域的空白，对风热血燥型银屑病的发病危险因素进行调查研究。
• Leisure is enjoyable, while vacuity is suffering.
  闲暇是享受的，而空虚是痛苦的。
• Mr Romney's chief problem as a candidate has been his substantive vacuity, his failure to stand for much beyond flexibility itself.
  作为总统候选人，罗姆尼的主要问题在于其主张极其空洞，除了见机行事本身之外未能真正主张什么。
• Tony Blair and Bill Clinton proclaimed a third way, but this degenerated into platitude and vacuity.
  托尼·布莱尔（TonyBlair）和比尔·克林顿（billclinton）曾宣称第三条道路，但这一说辞已蜕变成陈词滥调和空谈。