empty

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empty 表示没有内容或物体的状态,可作形容词、名词或动词,形容空间、容器或情感上的空虚。

用法要点

句型搭配

作为形容词时,常用于描述物体或空间的状态,如 'The room is empty.';作为动词时,常与 'out' 或 'into' 搭配,表示清空或倒入。

• empty the trash
• empty into the sink
• feel empty inside

介词用法

与介词 'of' 连用表示缺乏某物,如 'empty of meaning';作为动词时,可与 'from' 或 'into' 搭配表示来源或目的地。

• empty of people
• empty from the bottle
• empty into the container

语域说明

在正式和非正式语境中都常用,形容词形式多用于日常描述,动词形式在指令或过程描述中常见,名词形式较少用,多指空容器或车辆。

• The glass is empty.
• Please empty the box.
• an empty on the road

基础例句

The fridge is empty, so we need to go grocery shopping.

冰箱空了,所以我们需要去杂货店购物。

She felt empty after her friend moved away.

朋友搬走后,她感到内心空虚。

Please empty the trash bin before it overflows.

请在垃圾桶溢出前把它倒空。

The parking lot was empty at midnight.

午夜时分,停车场空无一人。

高级例句

The study concluded that the argument was empty of empirical evidence.

研究得出结论,该论点缺乏实证证据。

During the recession, many factories operated with empty order books.

在经济衰退期间,许多工厂的订单簿空空如也。

The algorithm checks for empty cells in the spreadsheet to avoid errors.

该算法检查电子表格中的空单元格以避免错误。

His promises turned out to be empty, leading to a loss of trust in negotiations.

他的承诺最终落空,导致在谈判中失去了信任。

高频搭配

verb

empty the bottleempty the trashempty the roomempty outempty into

adjective

completely emptyalmost emptytotally emptyempty spaceempty feeling

noun

empty bottleempty houseempty streetempty promiseempty stomach

adverb

completely emptypartially emptynearly emptyutterly empty

preposition

empty ofempty fromempty intoempty out of

phrase

run on emptyempty nestempty-handedempty wordsempty threat

常见错误

❌ 错误:The bottle is empty of water.
✓ 正确:The bottle is empty.

中文学习者常过度使用 'of' 结构,但 'empty' 本身已表示缺乏内容,直接说 'The bottle is empty' 更自然,除非强调特定缺失物如 'empty of meaning'。

❌ 错误:I empty the room to study.
✓ 正确:I clear the room to study.

'empty' 作为动词通常指移除内容物(如倒空容器),而 'clear' 更适合表示清空空间以腾出地方,这里应用 'clear' 以避免歧义。

近义词辨析

vacant

'vacant' 强调未被占用或空闲的状态,常用于职位、房间等,而 'empty' 更泛指缺乏内容或物体,范围更广。

The hotel room is vacant (available for rent), but the trash can is empty (has no trash).

hollow

'hollow' 指内部中空或有空洞,常形容物体结构,带物理或比喻意义;'empty' 更侧重整体缺乏内容,可用于抽象或具体情境。

The tree trunk is hollow (has a cavity inside), while the box is empty (contains nothing).