hollow
n. 洞, 窟窿, 山谷 a. 空的, 虚伪的, 空腹的, 凹的 vi. 形成空洞 vt. 挖空
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教材释义与例句
洞；山谷；窟窿
空的；中空的，空腹的；凹的；虚伪的
彻底地；无用地
释义与例句
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1.
A small valley between mountains.
He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
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2.
A sunken area on a surface.
洼地
the hollow of the hand
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3.
An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
a hollow in a tree trunk
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4.
A feeling of emptiness.
比喻a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach
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1.
to make a hole in something; to excavate
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1.
To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
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1.
Having an empty space or cavity inside.
空心
中空
空
a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
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2.
Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
He let out a hollow moan.
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3.
Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
空虚
比喻a hollow victory
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4.
Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
比喻a hollow promise
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5.
Concave; gaunt; sunken.
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6.
Pertaining to hollow body position
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7.
Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
烹饪While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
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Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
非正式
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Alternative form of hollo.
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词源
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
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