“hollow”在英语中的释义

noun

1. (geography) A small valley between mountains.

   • He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
   • c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter Forests grew upon the barren hollows.

2. A sunken area on a surface.

   • the hollow of the hand

3. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

   • a hollow in a tree trunk

4. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

   • a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach

verb

1. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate

adjective

1. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

   • a hollow tree; a hollow sphere

2. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

   • He let out a hollow moan.

3. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

   • a hollow victory

4. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

   • a hollow promise

5. Concave; gaunt; sunken.

6. (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position

7. (oenology) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).

   • 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.

adverb

1. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

verb

1. To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.

interjection

1. Alternative form of hollo.