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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I am in the garden at the back, beyondthe yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are- avery preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence,and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on the trees, riperand richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, andwhere my mother gathers some in a basket, while I stand by,bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unmoved.
-- I very soon started back fromthere, for the empty dog-kennel was filled up with a greatdogdeep-mouthed and black-haired like Him- and he was veryangry at the sight of me, and sprang out to get at me.
-- When the empty bottles ran short, there were labels to be pasted onfull ones, or corks to be fitted to them, or seals to be put upon thecorks, or finished bottles to be packed in casks.
-- The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sittingon the step of an empty shop at a street-corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other placeswhich had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with hiscarriage, dropped a horse-cloth.
-- If the thought that I may dieand leave my darling, or that my darling may die and leave me,comes like a spectre, to distress my happiest hours, and is only tobe drowned in-' He did not supply the word; but pacing slowly tothe place where he had sat, and mechanically going through theaction of pouring wine from the empty decanter, set it down andpaced back again.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm sure I should never have believed it if we hadn't proved it, so to allude," hiccupped Joseph Poorgrass, "that every cup, every one of the best knives and forks, and every empty bottle be in their place as perfect now as at the beginning, and not one stole at all."
-- Bathsheba flung down the brush, crook, and empty hive, pulled the skirt of her dress tightly round her ankles in a tremendous flurry, and as well as she could slid down the ladder.
-- The air was so empty of other sounds that the whirr of the clock-work immediately before the strokes was distinct, and so was also the click of the same at their close.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings and empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the dish was empty and Gerald only midway in his remarks on the thievishness of Yankees who wanted tofree darkies and yet offered no penny to pay for their freedom, Ellen rose.
-- Her mind was quiteblank, quite empty of all the thoughts that had surged through it only a moment before, and his words made no moreimpression than rain on glass.
-- Of course, there were empty chairs and babies who would never see their fathers' faces and unmarked graves bylonely Virginia creeks and in the still mountains of Tennessee, but was that too great a price to pay for such a Cause?
-- It was empty and helooked at it in forlorn bewilderment.
-- As she looked indignantly at the empty purse, an idea took form in Scarlett's mind and grew swiftly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way, in a strange place, on an empty stomach!I was hungry, but before I had swallowed a morsel, he began a running sum that lasted all through the breakfast.
-- The brewery buildings had a little lane of communication with it, and the wooden gates of that lane stood open, and all the brewery beyond stood open, away to the high enclosing wall; and all was empty and disused.
-- In a by-yard, there was a wilderness of empty casks, which had a certain sour remembrance of better days lingering about them; but it was too sour to be accepted as a sample of the beer that was gone,--and in this respect I remember those recluses as being like most others.
-- I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.
-- Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, by good luck, he found a large empty snail-shell.
-- Compared to this seat, all the learning of the schools is as empty air.
-- As he jumped upon the shore he saw before him a beautiful castle but empty and dreary within, for it was enchanted.
-- At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gud-geons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.
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