devoid

英 [dɪˈvɔɪd]

美 [dɪˈvɔɪd]

adj.  完全没有; 缺乏

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Collins.1 / BNC.9605 / COCA.9749

牛津词典

adj.

• 完全没有；缺乏
  completely lacking in sth
  1. The letter was devoid of warmth and feeling.
     这封信既无热情又无感情。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 毫无…的;没有…的
  If you say that someone or something isdevoid ofa quality or thing, you are emphasizing that they have none of it.
  1. I have never looked on a face that was so devoid of feeling...
     我从来没有见过一张如此面无表情的脸。
  2. The skies are virtually devoid of birdlife.
     天空中几乎没有任何鸟的踪迹。

英英释义

adj

• completely wanting or lacking
  1. writing barren of insight
  2. young recruits destitute of experience
  3. innocent of literary merit
  4. the sentence was devoid of meaning
  Synonym:barrendestitutefreeinnocent

双语例句

• Maldek was a utopia that was devoid of all struggle.
  马尔戴克是一个乌托邦，那里没有所有的奋斗。
• The article is empty and hollow, devoid of substance.
  这篇文章写得空空洞洞，没有实质内容。
• So devoid of wisdom or good sense as to be laughable.
  缺乏智慧或理性而觉得可笑。
• Out there beyond the Milky way is a good-sized volume nearly devoid of noticeable galaxies.
  在银河系之外相当大的空间内几乎没有明显的星系了。
• This was a culture devoid of self-criticism and self-analysis, hindering the prevention of impending economic catastrophe.
  这是一种缺乏自我批评和自我分析的文化，给防范日益迫近的经济灾难制造了障碍。
• The face is entirely devoid of expression.
  脸上完全没有表情。
• The Nazi regimes devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.
  而纳粹制度除了欲望和种族统治外，毫无宗旨和原则。
• They are utterly devoid of conscience, they even humiliated these defenseless civilians.
  欺辱这些手无寸铁的平民，这些人真是丧尽天良。
• We shouldn't be deceived by these outer expressions that are in fact devoid of true intellectual development.
  我们不应该被这些外表所蒙骗，事实上这些外相之下缺乏真正的智慧的增长。
• The skies are virtually devoid of birdlife.
  天空中几乎没有任何鸟的踪迹。