词汇对比与辨析

核心差别

hollowness 强调hollowness 指物体内部的空洞状态,emptiness 则侧重空虚指一种内心缺乏意义、目标或满足感的空洞状态

使用场景对比

对比方面hollownessemptiness
核心含义hollowness 指物体内部的空洞状态,或比喻情感、生活等方面的空虚、不真实感。空虚指一种内心缺乏意义、目标或满足感的空洞状态,常伴随孤独或失落感。
词性名词名词
使用语域hollowness 常作主语或宾语,用于描述抽象概念如情感、承诺或物理状态如空间。emptiness 常作不可数名词,用于描述抽象的情感或状态,如 "feel a sense of emptiness" 或 "fill the emptiness"。

对比例句

hollowness

After the breakup, he felt a strange hollowness in his heart.

分手后,他心中感到一种奇怪的空虚感。

hollowness

The old tree had a natural hollowness that made it a home for animals.

那棵老树有一个天然的空洞,成了动物的家园。

emptiness

After the breakup, she felt a deep emptiness that was hard to shake off.

分手后,她感到一种难以摆脱的深深空虚。

emptiness

He tried to fill the emptiness in his life with new hobbies and friends.

他试图用新的爱好和朋友来填补生活中的空虚。

常见误用提醒

使用 hollowness:I have a hollowness feeling. → I have a feeling of hollowness. (hollowness 是名词,不能直接修饰 feeling,应使用 of 结构或改用形容词 hollow。)

使用 hollowness:The hollowness is very big. → The hollowness is very deep or pronounced. (描述 hollowness 的程度时,常用 deep、profound 或 pronounced,而不是 big,以更准确地表达抽象或情感上的空虚。)

使用 emptiness:I feel emptiness. → I feel a sense of emptiness. (emptiness 作为不可数名词,通常不直接用在 "feel" 后;应加 "a sense of" 或其他修饰语使表达更自然。)