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

• 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。
• He felt a little boring and walked into the garden in order to avoid the vacuity.
  他开始觉得无聊了，他跑到了花园中游玩。
• 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。
• The novel gives a full display of the prevalent mental predicament of the "Freeters" of the modern society, namely, their pervasive loneliness and vacuity after losing ideals.
  作品反映出日本现代“飞特族”（自由职业者）身上显现出的较普遍存在的心理问题，即丧失了崇高理想后精神上的隐形疾病-“孤独”与“虚无”。
• 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。
• The Clinical Observation of Treating Functional Dyspepsia of Liver Depression and Spleen Vacuity Syndromes by Coursing the Liver and Fortifying the Spleen and Harmonizing the Stomach
  调肝理脾方抑制酒精性肝纤维化的实验研究疏肝健脾和胃法治疗肝郁脾虚型功能性消化不良的临床观察
• Clinic therapy on sensorineural deafness in kidney essence vacuity.
  肾精亏虚证耳聋的临床治疗。
• Leisure is enjoyable, while vacuity is suffering.
  闲暇是享受的，而空虚是痛苦的。
• Measurement and Analysis of Vacuity Under Vacuum Preloading
  真空预压中真空度及其测试和分析
• Judgement and Analysis on Vacuity of Arc Extinguish Chambers in Vacuum Circuit Breakers
  真空断路器灭弧室真空度的判定及分析