| 单词 | empty-handed |
| 分类 | 翻译、意思、用法、释义、英译汉、汉译英、英汉双解词典 |
| 释义 | ˌempty-ˈhanded adjective NONE/NOTHINGwithout getting what you hoped or expected to get 一无所获的，空手的return/come back etc empty-handed I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed. 我整个上午都在寻找一件合适的礼物，但最后还是空着手回家了。Examples from the Corpusempty-handed• Hearing police sirens in the distance, the robber was forced to leave the bank empty-handed.• After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed.• Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.• She banged his head on the till and slammed the drawer on his hand, before he ran off almost empty-handed.• The day will end with a prize draw, but no-one will go home empty-handed.• Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.• More often than not he came back to his apartment empty-handed and crestfallen.• Unusually, the martial art of kali teaches the use of weapons first and empty-handed techniques last.return/come back etc empty-handed• I watched as he raced the length of the yard and came back empty-handed.• Soon, Banjo comes back empty-handed.• He came back empty-handed, then set off again with his son.ˌempty-ˈhanded adjectiveChineseSyllable without hoped to expected getting you what Corpus or |
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