empty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 空的； 空洞的v. 倒空， 使成为空的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
-- He lay, in the dark empty house, with not a man, a wom-an, or a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that, and for the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentleman from Tellson's had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation, settle his odd little flaxen wig at the ears, and follow the waiter to Miss Manette's apartment.
-- The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips.
-- Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly be-lieved, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another cus-tomer in.
-- cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, 'and here are the tumbrils!And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here!See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
-- So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.
-- The impostors requested him very courteously to be so good as to come nearer their looms; and then asked him whether the design pleased him, and whether the colors were not very beautiful; at the same time pointing to the empty frames.
-- However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much ap-parent diligence as before at their empty looms.
-- It was just the same with this gentleman as with the minister; he surveyed the looms on all sides, but could see nothing at all but the empty frames.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, his eyes sparkling significantly as he pushed away the empty rough shells, and drew the cheese towards him.
-- "It's not time yet; I think I'm too early," he said glancing round the empty drawing room.
-- Not an idea in one's brain, as empty as a drum!"
-- he shouted to a young peasant, who drove by, standing in the front of an empty cart, shaking the cord reins.
-- The barking of dogs showed the carriage had reached the village, and all that was left was the empty fields all round, the village in front, and he himself isolated and apart from it all, wandering lonely along the deserted highroad.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At nine the train stopped at the important town of North Platte, built between the two arms of the river, which rejoin each other around it and form a single artery, a large tributary, whose waters empty into the Missouri a little above Omaha.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He crawled past her lamentations and the man's sorrow and drove home, empty of heart.
-- House-shutters were closed, hot slatted patches in the sun; and the only traffic was an empty trolley-car with a frightened motorman who peered down at them and sped up lest they come aboard.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, looking at the empty corner where she had sat 'She will come to herself and weep, and then her mother will find out芒聙娄.
-- And there was the fourth storey, here was the door, here was the flat opposite, the empty one.
-- The flat underneath the old woman's was apparently empty also; the visiting card nailed on the door had been torn off they had gone away!
-- She only put up her empty left hand, but not to her face, slowly hold-ing it out before her as though motioning him away.
-- They were approaching; they were only a flight from him and suddenly deliverance!A few steps from him on the right, there was an empty flat with the door wide open, the flat on the second floor where the painters had been at work, and which, as though for his benefit, they had just left.
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