hollows

英 [ˈhɒləʊz] 美 [ˈhɑːloʊz]

n.  凹陷处; 坑洼处; 洞; 孔; 围起来的空间
v.  挖
hollow的第三人称单数和复数

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  1. ADJ 空的;空心的;中空的
    Something that is hollow has a space inside it, as opposed to being solid all the way through.
    1. ...a hollow tree.
      空心的树
    2. ...a hollow cylinder.
      中空圆筒
  2. ADJ-GRADED 凹的;凹陷的
    A surface that is hollow curves inwards.
    1. He looked young, dark and sharp-featured, with hollow cheeks.
      他看起来很年轻，肤色黝黑，五官分明，双颊凹陷。
  3. N-COUNT 树洞
    A hollow is a hole inside a tree.
    1. I made my home there, in the hollow of a dying elm.
      我在一棵快要枯死的榆树的树洞里安了家。
  4. N-COUNT 凹陷处;低洼地
    A hollow is an area that is lower than the surrounding surface.
    1. Below him the town lay warm in the hollow of the hill.
      在他下方，小镇卧在温暖的山谷里。
    2. ...where water gathers in a hollow and forms a pond.
      在那里水积聚在低洼处形成了池塘
  5. ADJ 空洞的;无用的;无价值的
    If you describe a statement, situation, or person as hollow, you mean they have no real value, worth, or effectiveness.
    1. Any threat to bring in the police is a hollow one.
      任何威胁说要叫警察来的话都是虚声恫吓。
    2. ...a hollow man who's coasted on charm for far too long.
      长久以来一直依靠个人魅力取胜的肤浅之人
  6. ADJ （笑声等）虚伪的，不真诚的
    If someone gives a hollow laugh, they laugh in a way that shows that they do not really find something amusing.
    1. Murray Pick's hollow laugh had no mirth in it.
      默里·皮克的干笑里没有一点快乐。
  7. ADJ （声音）空洞的，沉闷回荡的
    A hollow sound is dull and echoing.
    1. ...the hollow sound of a gunshot.
      空洞的枪响
  8. VERB 使凹陷;使下陷
    If something is hollowed, its surface is made to curve inwards or downwards.
    1. The mule's back was hollowed by the weight of its burden.
      骡背被重负压得塌下了。
    2. ...her high, elegantly hollowed cheekbones.
      她凹陷有致的高颧骨
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双语例句

  1. The angular hollows and lines of his aged ancestors had succeeded to their reign in his face twenty years before their time.
    他的那些老祖宗们的瘦骨嶙峋和满脸的皱纹，已经提前二十年出现在他的脸上了。
  2. Birds make their nests in trees. Small animals and insects build their homes in the hollows of trees.
    鸟类在树上筑巢，小动物和昆虫则在树洞中栖居。
  3. At a 12,000-year-old burial site in northern Israel, archaeologists found the remains of at least 71 tortoises and two wild cattle in specially built hollows in a cave.
    在以色列北边一个有着1万2千年历史的墓址里，考古学家在一个山洞中特别挖出的凹地里发现了至少71只乌龟和2只野牛的残骸。
  4. Small animals and insects build their homes in the hollows of the trees.
    小动物和昆虫在树洞中安家。
  5. Usually galvanized sheet iron or sheet steel shaped into straight parallel ridges and hollows.
    通常是指外形上带有平行的突起和凹陷的白铁钢板。
  6. You lose a child, it hollows you out.
    当你失去孩子将痛不欲生。
  7. The empty iron sheet hollows out on the bench, brightly burnished metal strip is reflecting the yellow light respectively.
    空荡荡的铁皮镂空长椅上，锃亮的金属条子一根一根各自反射着黄光。
  8. So the hollows about this pond will, sometimes, in the winter, be filled with a greenish water somewhat like its own, but the next day will have frozen blue.
    所以在湖边的许多低洼地，有时候，在冬天，充满了像它一样的绿色的水，可是到了第二天，我发现它们已冻成了蓝色的冰。
  9. The most significant threat to bats is habitat clearance, particularly the removal of the old forest wood where they roost in hollows or under the bark of trees.
    对蝙蝠最严重的威胁来自对其栖息地的彻底破坏，特别是对老林区的砍伐，威胁最大。老林区的树洞或树皮内，是蝙蝠赖以栖息的地方。
  10. Have filled the hollows full.
    将坑洼处填满。
  11. Make pits or hollows in sth
    使某物上有凹陷、有麻点
  12. These hollows filled with water as the glaciers melted, and lakes formed.
    冰川融化，这些凹地便充满水，形成湖泊。
  13. Immediately after the rains, however, they can collect water from natural hollows.
    雨后，他们能立即在天然洞取水。
  14. In some of the more remote hollows, children still grow up hearing songs of Elizabethan times.
    在一些较偏远的山谷里，孩子们成长过程中听到的仍是伊丽莎白时代的歌曲。
  15. Fog clings to the hollows.
    云雾附着在山谷中。
  16. Mercury is covered in craters-hollows made by huge space rocks crashing into it.
    水星的表面有许多陨石坑，这些坑是由巨大的太空岩石撞击而成的。
  17. The river hollows its bank.
    河岸因流水而凹陷。
  18. His eye was caught by the large footprints he had made the night before. Although covered by snow the hollows still showed clearly.
    一眼，他看到昨夜自己留下的大脚印，虽然又被雪埋上，可是一坑坑的还看得很真。
  19. Most species make their nests on bare ground, and lay their eggs in shallow hollows scraped in the icy dirt.
    大部分品种的企鹅在露天地上筑巢，将卵产在浅滩凹陷处，埋入冻土层中。
  20. Artifacts were often found within hollows in the rocky bottom, which was covered with as much as two feet of sand.
    在布满岩石的海底的空隙里常常发现有手工制品。海底上覆盖着足有两英尺厚的沙子。
  21. The ground was covered in little hollows which could easily break the leg of anyone whose foot got caught.
    地面上有许多的小低洼地，人的脚陷进去就很容易摔坏腿。
  22. The ground was covered in little hollows.
    地面上有许多小坑。
  23. Beyond it the humps and hollows of the 18th fairway could be glimpsed.
    更远处可以望见第18洞球道起伏的山丘与谷地。
  24. The drop hollows the stone, not by force, but by the frequency of its fall.
    滴水穿石不是由于强力而是由于频繁所致。
  25. She went on as silently as she could, avoiding the hollows wherein leaves had accumulated.
    她尽可能悄然无声地向前走着，避开那些堆积着落叶的坑洼。
  26. Soon rain fell down on the earth's crust and filled all the valleys, cracks and hollows. In this way, rivers, lakes, oceans and seas were formed.
    雨随即降落到地壳上，填满了所有山谷、裂隙和洼地，河流、湖泊和海洋就是这样形成的。
  27. When the waves of the sea are most towering its hollows are most awesome.
    当海浪涌到最高的时候，浪涡是最可怕的。
  28. The glaciers carved hollows in the land as they traveled.
    冰川流动时，在大地上切割出凹地。
  29. The night creptgently into the hollows of the hills.
    黑夜轻轻的蔓延到山谷。
  30. Even so, the first images have an eerily familiar quality, showing rocks, hollows, hills and mesas.
    即使如此，首批影像显出的岩石、地、陵和台地，都带著诡异的熟悉感。
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