empty words

英 [ˈempti wɜːdz]

美 [ˈempti wɜːrdz]

网络  虚词; 词穷; 词汇空缺; 功能词也称虚词; 空洞的言词

英英释义

noun

• loud and confused and empty talk
  1. mere rhetoric
  Synonym:palaverhot airempty talkrhetoric

双语例句

• But we shall use facts, not empty words, to dispel their anxieties and to answer the people who, on the contrary, are hoping we will go capitalist.
  我们不能拿空话而是要拿事实来解除他们的这个忧虑，并且回答那些希望我们变成资本主义的人。
• She realized after long time that all his promises were just empty words.
  很长时间以后，她才意识到他所有的承诺都只是空话而已。
• Are they all empty words?
  真的都是些空话吗？
• This thesis describes reduplications of verb, adjective, numeral and measure word of the Guiyang dialect, commonly concurrent with complement or empty words.
  本文描写贵阳方言的动词、容词、词和量词的重叠形式，一般带附加成分或嵌有衬字。
• Obama is indeed eloquent, but diplomacy can not just empty words.
  奥巴马的确能言善辩，但外交上不能光说空话。
• These are just empty words.
  这些不过是些空话。
• It is used by people who dislike empty words.
  它常用于不喜欢说空话的人。
• Without such accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page.
  没有这种问责制度，任何协议都只是一纸空文。
• Without judicial review, statutory limits would be naught but empty words.
  没有司法审查，法定权限将只是一句空话。
• Sometimes empty words matter.
  有些时候，空洞的言辞也很重要。