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Something inane is empty of real meaning — a silly remark, a blank smile, talk that fills the air but says nothing. It is harsher than “silly”: it suggests hollowness, not just play. You can call a comment, a grin, or a whole conversation inane. There is a rarer noun use for emptiness itself, but students will almost always meet the adjective. The tone is a bit literary; in casual talk people more often say “dumb” or “pointless.” Though actually, it is not the same as insane, which looks similar but means “mad.”
空洞的、無意義的；愚蠢無聊的
原始詞典資料3 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。
inaneadj/ɪˈneɪn/
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Lacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.
- This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.
- Francesca followed, reluctant enough in her secret; for though she would not have admitted it even to herself, she did shrink from the infliction of the inane solemnities with which her father garnished his discourse—to say nothing of the ungracious reflections which so often glanced at herself.
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Purposeless; pointless.
- Vague and inane instincts.
inanenoun/ɪˈneɪn/
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That which is void or empty.
- The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.
- […] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.
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。