Emptiness

(noun.) having an empty stomach.

(noun.) the state of containing nothing.

校对:迈克尔

• The scorn of the public should be turned upon the emptiness of political thought, upon the fact that those men seem without even a conception of the nation's needs. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There was something so strange and dreadful in the loneliness and emptiness of the house, that I was glad, on my side, to have a companion near me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• SUNDAY EVENING As the day wore on, the life-blood seemed to ebb away from Ursula, and within the emptiness a heavy despair gathered. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The late afternoon sun that still came over the brown shoulder of the mountain showed the bridge dark against the steep emptiness of the gorge. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• There was no refuge now from spiritual emptiness and discontent, and Dorothea had to bear her bad mood, as she would have borne a headache. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Space is, for the most part, emptiness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well, really, now I think we must be moving, said Humphrey, observing the emptiness of the vessel. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Celia, whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was almost full again, after its period of emptiness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She peeped in as she passed, and divined from the emptiness of his table, and the general appearance of things, that he was already gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Cleverly do they extract the sweet juices of flowers to fill the emptiness of many-celled combs. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• So there was nothing to do but to bear the stress of his own emptiness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the fixed stars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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