2020年2月24日的纽约客杂志中有这么一句话：Days, even weeks, in a tent or a bivouac, the hours empty of all but numbing chores and the howling of the wind.（数天，甚至数周，在帐篷或露营地中，除了麻木的家务和狂风的呼啸之外，所有的时间都是空的。）这里面有个词：empty，我们今天来看一下：单词辨析：hollow什么意思？和empty,vacant,blank,open的区别。
empty: 指空无一人或一物，或空洞无意义的；
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举个例子：文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
- On the day of the interview, the offices sat mostly empty as many employees continued to work from home because of the pandemic.— New York Times, 18 Oct. 2021
- 面试的那天，由于新冠肺炎的大流行，许多员工继续在家工作，办公室几乎空无一人。
vacant: 普通用词，侧重某物或某个位置没有被占用；文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
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- Players will help design vacant buildings on the archipelago as well, including a school, hospital and restaurant.— Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
- 玩家还将帮助设计群岛上的空置建筑，包括学校、医院和餐厅。
hollow: 指物体中间是空的；文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
举个例子：文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
- Some view his declarations of civil war on Republicans as counterproductive and claims of political power hollow.— Karl Rove, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
- 一些人认为他对共和党人的内战声明适得其反，并且声称政治权力是空洞的。
blank: 指上面没有写字、印刷或做记号的空白表面，或指上面留着准备被填写的空白处；文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
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- Contrary to speculation that the projectile that struck Hutchins and Souza may have been a piece of debris or a blank, Rios said detectives believe that the projectile was a real bullet.— Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
- 与推测击中哈钦斯和苏扎的射弹可能是一块碎片或一块空白的猜测相反，里奥斯说侦探认为射弹是一颗真正的子弹。
open: 指未被占有，从而可被别人得到的。文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
举个例子：文章源自西贝博客-https://qinghe.me/hollow-empty-vacant-blank-open.html
- A few months after the city shut down, construction, which drives rats into the open and had been halted like everything else, returned with gusto.— New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
- 这座城市关闭几个月后，驱赶老鼠进入露天并像其他一切一样被停止的建筑，又热情地回归了。
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