Hollow

(noun.) a small valley between mountains; 'he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians'.

(noun.) a cavity or space in something; 'hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks'.

(verb.) remove the interior of; 'hollow out a tree trunk'.

(adj.) as if echoing in a hollow space; 'the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom' .

(adj.) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; 'a hollow wall'; 'a hollow tree'; 'hollow cheeks'; 'his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year' .

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• The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr. Vholes gives it a rap, and it sounds as hollow as a coffin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If they have surrounded the hollow it is that, Robert Jordan said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head, But I will beat them hollow. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Here, bending towards Mr. Pickwick, he whispered in a deep, hollow voice, 'A Buff ball, Sir, will take place in Birmingham to-morrow evening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Briarmains being nearer than the Hollow, Mr. Yorke had conveyed his young comrade there. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I descended to the bottom of the hollow, squeezed my way through a hedge, and got out into a lane. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The daily appearance of a brougham and pair could hardly have been overlooked in such Sleepy Hollows. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is the natural hill, with its mossy breaks and hollows, whose slope invites ascent, whose summit it is pleasure to gain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The dusk was just dimming the hollows of crowded houses. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The hollows in which London and Paris lie are both perforated in many places by borings of this nature. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was a sunny afternoon at the beginning of summer, and the moist hollows of the heath had passed from their brown to their green stage. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The poles of the electromagnet in the local circuit are hollowed out and filled up with carbon disks or powdered plumbago. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Roughly pyramidal in shape and hollowed out, I perceive. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Canoes are made of logs hollowed out, or of birch bark stretched over a light frame, skilfully fastened with deers’ sinews and rendered water-tight by pitch. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Conceive a dell, deep-hollowed in forest secresy; it lies in dimness and mist: its turf is dank, its herbage pale and humid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Then came the hollowing out of the trees, and then, with the development of tools and a primitive carpentry, the building of boats. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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