vacant

英 ['ve?k(?)nt] 美['vek?nt]

反義詞

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副詞:?vacantly;

發(fā)音想成“未墾的”。

vacant 空著的

來自拉丁語vacare,空的，詞源同vain.

vacant: vacant: [13] Latin vacāre meant ‘be empty’. Its present participle vacāns has provided English with vacant, while its past participle lies behind English vacate [17] and vacation [14]. It also formed the basis of an adjective vacuus ‘empty’, from which English gets vacuous [17] and vacuum [16] (the term vacuum cleaner is first recorded in 1903, and the consequent verb vacuum in 1922). English avoid and void come from a variant of Latin vacāre.
=> vacate, vacuum
vacant (adj.): c. 1300, "not filled, held, or occupied," from Old French vacant "idle, unoccupied" (of an office, etc.), from Latin vacantem (nominative vacans), "empty, unoccupied," present participle of vacare "to be empty" (see vain). Meaning "characterized by absence of mental occupation" is from 1570s. Related: Vacantly.

1. They may headhunt her for the vacant position of Executive Producer.: 他們可能會挖她去填補(bǔ)執(zhí)行制片人這一空缺職位。

2. The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off.: 空缺的世界拳擊理事會次輕量級頭銜被取消了。

3. Vacant rooms on the campus were being used by holidaying families.: 校園里的閑置宿舍住著一些度假的家庭。