“empty、handed”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

empty-handed

释义

ˈempty-ˈhanded, a.
[see empty a.]
Having nothing in the hand: chiefly in phrases, to go, come, etc. empty-handed. a. Bringing nothing, esp. no gift. Also fig.
1613Purchas Pilgr., Descr. India (1864) 40 None..may come before the King with any Petition emptie-handed.1775Sheridan Rivals ii. ii, I guessed you weren't come empty-handed.1850W. Irving Goldsmith 31 His daughter..entered her husband's family empty-handed.1871Rossetti Poems, Last Confess. 22, I passed a village-fair..And thought, being empty-handed, I would take Some little present.
fig.1855Smedley Occult Sc. 258 Proving..that the prescient spirit comes empty-handed.
b. Carrying nothing away.
1635Austin Medit. 137 Departing as he [Christ] did emptie-handed from the world.1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 119 He [the hunter] returned empty-handed.1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 102 At all events Swegen went away empty-handed.

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