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

• The review is dull and devoid of content.
  这篇评论语言干瘪，内容空泛。
• 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。
• You think I'm a silly, spoiled kid, completely devoid of gratitude.
  你一定认为我是一个傻傻的，娇惯了的，没有感恩心的孩子。
• Yet she is not devoid of humour and high spirits.
  可是她并不缺少幽默和兴致。
• He is devoid of common sense.; He lacks common sense.
  他缺乏常识。
• Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
  赫胥黎经典的预言小说描绘了未来主义乌托邦中社会化的恐怖和对个人自由的剥夺。
• 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。
• Not wholly devoid of an idea that he might behold an evil spirit.
  并非完全没有料到他可能又要看到一个邪魔了。
• He was dismissed because he was devoid of talent.
  他被解雇了因为他缺乏才能。
• It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content.
  这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。