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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The articles are long-winded and devoid of substance.
  这些文章空话连篇。
• 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。
• Though he made some mistakes, he is not devoid of any merit.
  他虽然犯了错误，但并非一无是处。
• 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 man's voice was devoid of inflection
  那人的声音缺少抑扬变化。
• 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。
• If ever there has been a heavy bubble, devoid of lightheaded joy, this has to be it.
  如果说还存在着一个巨大的泡沫，缺乏让人头晕的快乐，这就是一个了。