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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His presence and example diffused such alacrity among the persons employed, that, in a few hours, the house was emptied of everything, but pieces of matting, empty porter-pots, and scattered fragments of straw.
-- They trudged forward, more slowly and painfully than they had done yet, for another mile or thereabouts, when they heard the sound of wheels behind them, and looking round observed an empty cart approaching pretty briskly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Into the next room--an empty one," she said.
-- "I have no more questions to ask," said the prosecutor to the court, and uplifting his shoulders he began to add to the memorandums of his speech that the prisoner herself confessed to entering an empty room with Simon.
-- Missy frowned angrily, shrugged her shoulders, and turned to an elegant officer, who took from her hands the empty teacup and valiantly carried it to another table, his sword striking every object it encountered.
-- The inspector sent the warden, and Nekhludoff followed him into the empty visiting-room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt faint and cold when I faced the empty space among the black tangle of bushes.
-- The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now cut it up,' said the Lion, as she returned to her place with the empty dish.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next moment we were both groping downstairs, leaving the candle by the empty chest; and the next we had opened the door and were in full retreat.
-- I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes, for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.
-- Several bullets struck the log-house, but not one entered; and as the smoke cleared away and vanished, the stockade and the woods around it looked as quiet and empty as before.
-- Both men were plainly the worse of drink, and they were still drinking, for even while I was listening, one of them, with a drunken cry, opened the stern window and threw out something, which I divined to be an empty bottle.
-- The planks, which had not been swabbed since the mutiny, bore the print of many feet, and an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part of her total capacity."
-- If, then, just now you were to empty the supplementary reservoirs, to lighten the vessel, and to go up to the surface, the pumps must overcome the pressure of 100 atmospheres, which is 1,500 lbs.
-- Some of the ship's crew in their diving-dresses were clearing away half-rotten barrels and empty cases from the midst of the blackened wrecks.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Birkin was drinking something green, Miss Darrington had a small liqueur glass that was empty save for a tiny drop.
-- So she passed through the empty farm-yard and through the wilderness of a garden, and mounted the bank by the sluice.
-- "And the world empty of people?"
-- You yourself, don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?"
-- Down the railway ran the trains, short trains of heavily laden trucks, long trains of empty wagons, each one bearing in big white letters the initials:"C. B.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes: you had the reason of going to bed with a proud heart and an empty stomach,' said I.
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