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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was still weak, you must remember, from my exposure in the boat; I was empty and very faint, or I should have had more heart.
-- It was at its full, and very bright riding through the empty blue sky.
-- In my pocket was a revolver with two empty chambers.
-- In an empty hut I feasted on some specked and half-decayed fruit; and then after I had propped some branches and sticks about the opening, and placed myself with my face towards it and my hand upon my revolver, the exhaustion of the last thirty hours claimed its own, and I fell into a light slumber, hop-ing that the flimsy barricade I had erected would cause sufficient noise in its removal to save me from surprise.
-- I lay, however, between the reef and the island that night, and the next morning went round to the stream and filled the empty keg aboard with water.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
-- I am as empty as a dried well.'
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
-- Mowgli was sore and angry as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city giving the Strangers' Hunting Call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli felt that he had reached a very bad place in-deed.
-- The monkeys on the walls and the empty houses stopped their cries, and in the stillness that fell upon the city Mowgli heard Bagheera shaking his wet sides as he came up from the tank.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A desperate and fruitless struggle to recover the branch succeeded, and then the savage was seen for a fleeting instant, grasping wildly at the empty air.
-- The young Mohican complied, leaving the scout turn-ing over the useless contents of his pouch, and shaking the empty horn with renewed discontent.
-- he continued, returning the empty gourd to Uncas; 'now we will see how these rampaging Hu-rons lived, when outlying in ambushments.
-- 'If I had but one of the thousand boats which lie empty along that shore, it might be done!Ha!here will soon be an end of the fir-ing, for yonder comes a fog that will turn day to night, and make an Indian arrow more dangerous than a molded can-non.
-- The sullen soldiers shouldered their empty tubes and fell into their places, like men whose blood had been heated by the past contest, and who only desired the op-portunity to revenge an indignity which was still wounding to their pride, concealed as it was under the observances of military etiquette.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an empty bottle by the side of the bed, which had contained milk, and in a piece of newspaper a few crumbs.
-- By my side was the empty bowl in which the concierge had brought me my cafe au lait and the fragment of croissant which I had not had appetite enough to eat.
-- It was not only the bold simplification of the drawing which showed so rich and so singular a personality; it was not only the painting, though the flesh was painted with a passionate sensuality which had in it something miraculous; it was not only the solidity, so that you felt extraordinarily the weight of the body; there was also a spirituality, troubling and new, which led the imagination along unsuspected ways, and suggested dim empty spaces, lit only by the eternal stars, where the soul, all naked, adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.
-- They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; but it was bitterly cold, and after an hour or two of uneasy dozing they would tramp the streets again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grouse were fastened by their claws, and Pencroft, delighted at not having to appear before their companions with empty hands, and observing that the day had begun to decline, judged it best to return to their dwelling.
-- In fact, the canoe probably would not have been able to contain the articles possibly enclosed in the chest, which doubtless was heavy, since two empty barrels were required to buoy it up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You've shown me so many,' returned Dick; 'and nothing has come of any one of 'em but empty pockets ''You'll tell a different story of this one, before a very long time is over,' said his companion, drawing his chair to the table.
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
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