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

• At length, the results of investigation are like these: 1. Most students have steady moods, active sprits, harmonious relationship; But some students are always lost in anxiety, repress and inanity.
  结果如下：1、大部分学生情绪较稳定，有积极进取精神，人际关系和谐，但也有部分学生感到较焦虑、压抑和空虚。
• 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。
• Moreover, the practice of the city developments has indicated such a fact: over-dependent on automobile will lease life and vigour of cities, bring decline to the city, and take people to vast inanity.
  并且，城市发展的实践也表明了这样一个事实：对汽车的过度依赖会削弱城市的生机与活力，加速城市的没落；也会使人产生更大的空虚感。
• 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。
• The whole novel gives the reader a deep feeling of disillusion and exposes the darkness of the American society, the inanity of the life and the inevitable disillusion of the "American dreams".
  整部作品中蕴含了深深的幻灭感，充分揭示了美国社会的黑暗、空虚的现实以及美国梦必然幻灭的结局。
• The mesmerizing inanity of television.
  电视糊弄人的浅薄无聊。
• In terms of the common characters of psychological problems, this article focuses on ten kinds of mental blocks, including mental fatigue, worry for no reason, distraction, inanity, inferiority, melancholy, depression, rage, cowardice and hostility.
  本研究阐述了一般心理问题的特征及表现，并确定了心理疲劳、自卑、暴躁、消沉、分神、忧郁、空虚、无端烦恼、怯懦、敌对等10个大学生常见的一般心理问题。
• 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 this is quite funny.
  此举的浅薄之处非常可笑。
• Their statement was a downright inanity.
  他们的声明是彻头彻尾的废话。