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

• Stability and unity would be out of the question, and the construction, reform and rejuvenation of China would become no more than empty words.
  就谈不上安定团结，什么建设改革、振兴中华，都将成为空话。
• 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。
• These are just empty words.
  这些不过是些空话。
• Until we see the United States DOING something about this and until we see America bringing back jobs and manufacturing then these are just empty words.
  如果看不到美国真正就此做点事，看不到美国把工作机会和制造业带回国内，那这些都是扯淡。
• Oh, I had a few scruples. I assuaged my conscience with empty words.
  哦，我有过一点顾虑，但我用空洞的话语安慰我的良知。
• Love is not empty words but potential actions.
  爱不是空洞的言语，乃是实际行动。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sometimes empty words matter.
  有些时候，空洞的言辞也很重要。
• 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。