inanity

英

美

n.  空洞（虚）；废话；无意义；无知；愚昧；蠢事

复数：inanities　

BNC.35521 / COCA.32337

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 愚蠢的;傻的
  If you describe someone's behaviour or actions asinane, you think they are very silly or stupid.
  1. He always had this inane grin...
     他总是这样傻傻地咧嘴笑。
  2. She started asking me inane questions.
     她开始问我愚蠢的问题。

英英释义

noun

• total lack of meaning or ideas
  Synonym:senselessnessmindlessnessvacuitypointlessness

双语例句

• Ma Bo Le refused to face the undesirable reality and refused to bear his own destiny. Feng Er Cheng Zi lived a life of inanity after consciousness.
  马伯乐拒绝正视不合意的事实，拒绝承担自身命运；冯二成子生命意识觉醒后空虚度日，他们是在逃避和沉沦。
• But maybe people simply like what they do and aren't, as some management would have you believe, asking for too much& just the elimination of a small but disproportionately powerful amount of office inanity.
  但也许人们就是喜欢自己的工作而且不会要求太多（正如一些管理人希望让你相信的那样），只要去除掉办公室里为数不多却能量惊人的愚蠢行径就行。
• The inanity of the opposition between what are called contradictory notions is fully exhibited in what we may call the grandiose formula of a general law, that everything has the one and not the other of all predicates which are in such opposition.
  所谓矛盾概念的对立的虚妄性充分表现在可说是普遍规律的堂皇公式上，这个公式说：每一事物对于一切对立的谓词只可具有其一，而不能具有其他。
• Their statement was a downright inanity.
  他们的声明是彻头彻尾的废话。
• It was a non-tragic philosophy which though perilously near to inanity was by no means superficial.
  非悲剧性的哲学，虽几乎虚无，却并不浅薄。
• The inanity of this is quite funny.
  此举的浅薄之处非常可笑。
• The mesmerizing inanity of television.
  电视糊弄人的浅薄无聊。
• But the lure of audience ratings meant the show has also often descended into farcical inanity.
  但为了追求收视率，导致该节目经常沦为愚蠢荒唐的闹剧。
• There is no revenge like oblivion: burying others in the dust of their inanity.
  没有什么报复手段比得上漠视：让对手埋没在自己的无知愚昧的尘埃之中。
• The inanity of their humor started to get on my nerves.
  他们庸俗的幽默使我浑身不自在。