核心畫面
One way to picture 'empty': a container — a box, a glass, a bottle — with nothing inside it. That one image of 'nothing where something could be' stretches outward: a room with no people, a chair no one is sitting on, a heart with no feeling, words with nothing real behind them. The verb is the same picture in motion — making something become empty by taking everything out.
可以想成： empty 的核心畫面是一個容器——一個盒子、一個杯子、一個瓶子——裡面什麼都沒有。從這個「本來可以裝東…更多收起
可以想成： empty 的核心畫面是一個容器——一個盒子、一個杯子、一個瓶子——裡面什麼都沒有。從這個「本來可以裝東西、現在卻空著」的畫面往外延伸：沒人的房間、沒人坐的椅子、沒有感覺的心、背後沒有真心的話。動詞則是同一個畫面動起來——把裡面的東西全拿出來，讓它變空。原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
emptyadj/ˈɛm(p).ti/
- 1
Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- an empty purse
- an empty jug
- 2
computingengineeringmathematicsContaining no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- 3
obsoleteFree; clear; devoid; often with of.
- And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, Right ioyfull of your reformation.
- For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good wherein consists Womans domestic honour and chief praise;
- 4
Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- I hope our Ladies treaſure and our owne, May ſerue for ranſome to our liberties: Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe, That we may trauell into Siria, […]
- I hope it remaines not vnkindly with your Lordſhip, that I return'd you an empty Meſſenger.
- 5
Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- empty words, or threats
- empty offer
- 6
Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- empty pleasures
- Ev'n I more sweetly pass my careless days, Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise;
- 7
Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- empty dreams
- 8
Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- empty brains
- an empty coxcomb
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.
- 10
obsoleteProducing nothing; unfruitful.
- an empty vine
- […] and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind[…]
- 11
Hungry.
- 12
beveragesfoodlifestyleLacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Grotesquely vegetal, excessively oaked, empty wines were routinely produced in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1980s, however, the quality has soared.
emptyverb/ˈɛm(p).ti/
- 1
To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- to empty a well or a cistern
- The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
- 2
Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.
- Of these the Rhine empties into the Northern ocean and the Danube into the Euxine.
emptynoun/ˈɛm(p).ti/
- 1
A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
- Put the empties out to be recycled.
- The east-west flow consists in the westerly direction of the agricultural and industrial products of East Anglia; imports through London and Parkeston (Harwich); special traffic in coke to the Northamptonshire ironfield; and mineral empties returning to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire coalfields.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。