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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the king came home, he observed the empty cage, and asked the queen how that had happened.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a cham-ber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bot-tomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because, up to this time, he seemed to dote upon her,' said Childers, taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk.
-- 'Poor Sissy!He had better have apprenticed her,' said Childers, giving his hair another shake, as he looked up from the empty box.
-- 'By the Lord Harry, he'll have enough of it, first and last!He'd open his eyes, that boy would, if he knew how empty of learning my young maw was, at his time of life.'
-- Mr. James Harthouse smiled; and rising from his end of the sofa, and lounging with his back against the chimney-piece, so that he stood before the empty fire-grate as he smoked, in front of Tom and looking down at him, observed:'What a comical brother-in-law you are!'
-- For years upon years, the only pictures in my possession, or that I could have got into my possession, by any means, unless I stole 'em, were the engravings of a man shaving himself in a boot, on the blacking bottles that I was overjoyed to use in cleaning boots with, and that I sold when they were empty for a farthing a-piece, and glad to get it!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried my uncle; "it appears to me a collection of useless odd volumes, and a beggarly amount of empty shelves."
-- An empty bottle cast into the water lies to leeward without motion.
-- At last I saw the figure of Hans as if enveloped in the huge halo of burning blaze, and no other sense remained to me but that sinister dread which the condemned victim may be supposed to feel when led to the mouth of a cannon, at the supreme moment when the shot is fired and his limbs are dispersed into empty space.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was noth-ing now but this empty treadmill of what Clifford called the integrated life, the long living together of two people, who are in the habit of being in the same house with one another.
-- 'There's the keeper's empty bottle for his milk,' explained Mrs Flint.
-- She rinsed the tea-pot with hot water, and stood a moment wondering where to empty it.
-- He can make as many empty tubes and corrugations out of me as he likes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down in the cellars, as up in the bed-chambers, old objects that he well remembered were changed by age and decay, but were still in their old places; even to empty beer-casks hoary with cobwebs, and empty wine-bottles with fur and fungus choking up their throats.
-- Making his way to an empty little table in a corner of the room behind the stove, he put down his knapsack and his cloak upon the ground.
-- While the street was empty and silent, Little Dorrit was not afraid; but when she heard a footstep at a distance, or saw a moving shadow among the street lamps, she was startled, and whispered, 'Maggy, I see some one.
-- When she had stolen down-stairs, and along the empty yard, and had crept up to her own high garret, the smokeless housetops and the distant country hills were discernible over the wall in the clear morning.
-- When they were alone, something was rolled up or by other means got out of the way, and there was a great empty well before them, looking down into the depths of which Fanny said, 'Now, uncle!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house is empty half the day, so come and drum away as much as you like, and I shall be obliged to you.'
-- Her empty bed, her idle ball, Will never see her more; No gentle tap, no loving purr Is heard at the parlor door.
-- 'It can't seem so without Marmee and little Pip,' sighed Beth, glancing with full eyes at the empty cage above her head.
-- John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conductive to repose of mind or manner.
-- His rusty coat had a social air, and the baggy pockets plainly proved that little hands often went in empty and came out full.
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