empty space

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unoccupied space where something may be stored
    — You can park your car in that empty space.
  2. An unoccupied area or volume.
    — The empty space at the sides of the page is called the "margin".
  3. Vacuum; a space containing nothing at all
    — Atoms are mostly empty space.
  4. A feeling of longing for someone or something that is gone; a sense of a thing's absence. figuratively
    — It didn't seem possible that he wasn't going to be standing by the Dumpster, waiting for me at lunch, or meeting me in the science lab after school. I felt an empty space where my heart had been.
  5. barren, desolate Land, empty of life and people. figuratively
    — After 1849 ‘the West’ ceased to be a sort of frontier of infinity and became instead a large empty space of prairie, desert and mountain, suspended between two rapidly developing areas to the east and along the Pacific.

词形变化

empty spaces plural
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